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<div>{{Episode Data<br />
| image=FirstDaybreak.jpg<br />
| title=Daybreak, Part I<br />
| season= 4<br />
| episode=19<br />
| guests=<br />
| writer= [[Ronald D. Moore]]<br />
| story=<br />
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]<br />
| production=421<br />
| rating=1,661,000 viewers (Live+SD)<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/17/wwe-raw-cars-hannah-montana-and-spongebob-lead-weekly-cable-viewing/14680|title=WWE RAW, Cars, Hannah Montana and SpongeBob Lead Weekly Cable Viewing|date=17 March 2009|accessdate=25 March 2009|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
| US airdate=March 13, 2009<br />
| CAN airdate=March 13, 2009<br />
| UK airdate=March 17, 2009<br />
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| oldpopulation=39521<br />
| prev=[[Islanded In a Stream of Stars ]]<br />
| next=[[Daybreak, Part II]]<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]] begins to be stripped of parts, and [[William Adama|Adama]] calls for volunteers for a final mission.''<br />
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== Summary ==<br />
<br />
=== Act 1 ===<br />
'''In [[Caprica City]]'''<br />
*The Act opens with a montage, including a galaxy, a bird trapped in a skylight, water falling into a pool, and light over a planet. Establish a modern city: "Caprica City - Before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Fall]]".<br />
*[[William Adama|Bill Adama]], wearing civilian clothes, converses with another gentleman in a shaded room. Adama talks about his combat experience, commanding billions of cubits of men and materials, but doesn't want to go through with something. The man responds that he's only asking for one hour of his time, and that "sometimes there are things that you gotta do."<br />
*Across the city, Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] speaks with [[Caprica-Six]] in a limo, talking briefly about having things done for you as opposed to being independent. Baltar and Caprica-Six begin fooling around in the limo, when a call comes through. Baltar is immediately shaken. He apologizes and asks the other person to wait for him. The other person sounds ready to leave, but Baltar tells the person on the other end to wait for him, or he will sue for abandonment.<br />
*[[Laura Roslin]] sees out the last guest from her sister's baby shower. Laura and her two younger sisters sit on the couch, celebrating and laughing together.<br />
*In an apartment kitchen, [[Kara Thrace]] contemplates something and prepares food when the doorbell rings. Kara is surprised, saying they're early, and greets [[Lee Adama]] at the door, carrying flowers. Kara invites him in and calls for Zak. [[Zak Adama]] comes out, greets his brother, and introduces Kara as his girlfriend.<br />
*Baltar pleads with Nurse Barbara to stay with his father [[Julius Baltar|Julius]] at his apartment, after she is stabbed with a steak knife, but she refuses and leaves. Caprica-Six walks in, despite Baltar's instructions to stay in the car. Baltar starts berating his father over the fact that he's driven away three nurses, at great cost to him, while his father starts talking about Baltar's past. Baltar starts yelling and hitting his father, demanding that he shut up. Baltar then sends Caprica-Six away, saying he will be spending the rest of the evening with his father.<br />
*At her apartment, Laura Roslin is informed by two Caprica City Police officers that the previous night, her father and sisters died in a car accident. The other driver survived, and was intoxicated at the time of the accident. Roslin, upset, calmly asks the officers to leave. She stands in her apartment, alone, thinking, and then walks to a park in her nightgown. She rests her feet in the fountain, and then wades in the water, and rests on a nearby rock, letting the splashing water wash over her. The drops of water falling into the pond match what was seen in the earlier montage.<br />
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'''Aboard [[Galactica|''Galactica'']]'''<br />
*An IV drip, overlooking Laura Roslin resting in Sickbay.<br />
*In the Hangar Bay, Lee Adama complains about the amount of materials the ship captains want from ''Galactica''. Lee signs a number of documents (and also sends some back for revision), when a deckhand argues over the fact that the magnetic accelerators are being stripped. While Lee points out that they can be used as autoloaders for the civilian ships, the deckhand says that "it's like tearing the old girl's heart out", as it's used in launching Vipers. Lee compromises that the accelerators will be last thing they remove from ''Galactica'', then they'll "turn out the lights, and let the old girl die in peace."<br />
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=== Act 2 ===<br />
'''Aboard [[Galactica|''Galactica'']]'''<br />
*As [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] finishes packing the last of his belongings to be moved to the Cylon basestar, the hull rattles overhead.<br />
*Paulla tells [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] that they now control a majority in at least half the ships in the fleet. While Paulla continues to cheer about their political power, Baltar is informed by [[Virtual Six]] that "humanity's final chapter is about to be written," with him as the author. Baltar turns back to Paulla, thinking back. <br />
*In [[Sam Anders|Anders']] room, [[Kara Thrace|Kara]] sits with him, contemplating the notes she got from Hera ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]). With equations and notes, Kara continues to ponder.<br />
*In the CIC, Lt. [[Hoshi]] cleans up a spill, while Tigh announces that the Admiral will fly out the last Viper personally. He orders that the deck gang keep one launch tube intact and ready for remote activation. Tigh comments on Hoshi's inability to clean up the spill, saying "you won't make Admiral like that."<br />
*In the brig, [[Karl Agathon|Helo]] and an imprisoned [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] argue over the uniqueness of the Eights. Helo points out that Tyrol's relationship with Boomer, much like his with Athena's, are unique. Tyrol scoffs, calling himself a "frakkin' idiot" for not realizing that they're just machines, not people. The Eights are all the same "...because [[Final Five|''we'']] made them the same." Tyrol says that they can't be trusted, at which point, Helo ends the conversation abruptly. <br />
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'''In Caprica City'''<br />
*As Baltar escorts a lovely young woman into his house, he walks in to find [[Caprica-Six]] there, sitting. Baltar shoos the young woman upstairs, while Baltar declares Caprica an intruder and orders her out. Caprica-Six mentions that she had Julius moved to the Regency, a full-time care facility. Caprica mentions that he loves his new arrangements, and that the last time she saw him, he seemed happy. <br />
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'''Inside [[The_Colony|the Colony]]'''<br />
*Hera draws notes on a large paper, while [[Number One|Cavil]] points out that they're just "little dots." [[Number Four|Simon]] suggests that they feed Hera through tubes, while [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] insists that the girl just misses her mother. Cavil rejects this idea coldly, saying Hera is just a hybrid who holds the key to Cylon salvation, nothing more. Cavil leaves as Simon prepares a large needle with Hera and Boomer in view.<br />
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=== Act 3 ===<br />
'''Aboard [[Galactica|''Galactica'']]'''<br />
*[[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] helps [[Hotdog]] (with child in tow) with some pictures that fell while they crossed paths. Hotdog says that he grabbed photos of pilots from the [[Memorial hallway]] to ensure they weren't "left behind", but mentions there are a lot of photos still on the walls. Adama glances at the photos, stopping at one of [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] kissing [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] on the head. Adama then walks quickly out of the area, pauses, then walks back and takes the photo off the wall. <br />
*On the Hangar Deck, Baltar pleads Lee Adama to listen to a proposal asking for representation within the new government. Despite Baltar's claims that it will be for thousands of people, Lee is dubious of Baltar's motives as he outed Kara's secret. Baltar contends that Lee is letting his feelings for Kara cloud the possibility of genuine conversation. Lee allows him five minutes to state his case and walks away, with Baltar quickly following.<br />
*Admiral Adama looks over Kara's notes regarding the musical notes inside Anders' room. Kara admits she's reaching, looking for patterns and inspirations by assigning numbers to the notes, but is still unsure. Adama asks Kara about Baltar's declaration, which she confirms, and explains how she discovered and burned her remains on Earth. Kara is unsure of what she is, but Adama is sure that he thinks of her as a "daughter", and tells her not to forget it. Adama wants to ask Anders a question, to which Kara plugs him in. Anders shows signs of movement from his hands as power can be heard. Once powered up, Anders begins to speak in riddles, particularly about Kara. Kara dismisses the statements, and gives Adama the OK to ask his question. Adama decides to have Kara ask the question instead, although the actual question is not heard as the act ends.<br />
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'''In Caprica City'''<br />
*In a tub, Anders responds to a reporter's questions about his possibilities for a championship despite his team being in a rebuilding year. The reporter asks if his career would be incomplete without the championship, to which Anders starts by giving some general, seemingly canned responses. Then, in a candid moment, Anders tells the reporter that the championship, statistics, even the games don't really matter to him, but rather the pursuit of the "perfection" of the moment.<br />
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=== Act 4 ===<br />
'''Aboard [[Galactica|''Galactica'']]'''<br />
*Inside a Hangar storage area, Baltar tries some pleasantries, but Lee cuts him off and asks for the point. Baltar begins by saying that once ''Galactica'' is gone, that a new life will have begun, to which Baltar believes a different philosophy is needed in the days ahead. Baltar pledges his support to help this new era, but only asks for his people to have a say in government. Lee scoffs at the idea, saying that all he's known of Baltar's actions, is that they have served him in some way, and are all suspect as a result. Lee declines Baltar's request for representation for his group, on the grounds that he can't be trusted. Baltar relents, then leaves.<br />
*As Lee walks out of the storage room and Baltar converses with his followers, Admiral Adama enters, followed by Kara. The Admiral and Kara stretch a line of tape on the floor of the deck. Adama begins to speak to the crew in the Hangar Deck regarding the disappearance of Hera, and that originally a rescue was not practical, but was wrong.<br />
*Across the ship, the crew begins to talk about the rescue plan...<br />
**Hotdog talks with the pilots about where the Admiral got the information. The Admiral didn't say where, but Hotdog speculates that Anders gave the information as Kara was by the Admiral's side.<br />
**Ishay and Cottle discuss the fact that until now, they weren't sure of where Hera was located, but that has apparently changed. Roslin overhears this with a concerned look.<br />
**Tory and Ellen walk through the halls, saying that even with the location, it's not the same as being able to get her. Tory expresses her dislike of the rescue idea, but Ellen argues that Hera's importance is outside their understanding, and that they are all going with them. Tory thinks that Ellen is deciding for the group, but Ellen points out that Tory never liked being alone.<br />
**Tory and Ellen pass Lee Adama, relaying instructions over the phone. Lee mentions that the mission is strictly voluntary, and that any man or woman over the age of 15 may join up, including the ones detained due to the mutiny.<br />
**In the CIC, Colonel Tigh declares that all personnel must make their own choice in person and that the Admiral is waiting on the Hangar Deck. Tigh also gives last minute instructions regarding the watch and watchkeepers, then orders the crew to move. Tigh asks Hoshi what he's going to do, which Hoshi isn't sure about. Tigh mentions that he has "four minutes" to figure it out.<br />
**In their quarters, Helo and Athena discuss the rescue. Helo is very enthusiastic about the attempt, while Athena is convinced Hera's mostly likely dead. Helo still believes that Hera is alive, they will get her back, and everything will be all right. While Athena is still not convinced, Helo says she's wrong and leaves. <br />
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'''In [[Caprica City]]'''<br />
*Lee Adama staggers into his apartment, laughing about a "dare" that took place at Zak and Kara's place. As Lee knocks over some glasses, he spots a pigeon inside his apartment. Lee angrily tries to shoo the pigeon out with a broom, but after breaking more things, gives up in frustration.<br />
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=== Act 5 ===<br />
'''In [[Caprica City]]'''<br />
*[[Laura Roslin]] is on the phone with someone while dining alone, dismissing the fact that she is a recluse in the 3 months since her father and sisters' death. She is also adamant against joining Mayor Adar's campaign, saying she doesn't like politics. She makes a deal with the person, however, that she will go on a date with a man, Shawn Ellison, if they drop the idea of Roslin joining Adar's campaign.<br />
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'''Aboard [[Galactica|''Galactica'']]'''<br />
*In Sickbay, Laura Roslin puts on her wig, getting ready to leave.<br />
*Admiral Adama gives a final impassioned speech to the assembled crew on the Hangar Deck, saying they should not be obligated to join the mission. Adama has made a personal choice to undertake the mission. Should not enough people join the mission to crew Galactica, a Raptor assault will be lead by him in its place. Adama makes it clear that this mission will mostly likely be one-way, so emotion or sentiment should not be considered. Pointing to the line on the deck, Admiral Adama asks for volunteers to move to the Starboard side and those choosing to remain with the fleet to move to Port.<br />
*The crew begins shifting between sides. During the exchange, Adama asks Dr. Cottle to remain with the fleet, but thanks him for the thought. When all the movement has settled, those among the volunteers include Lee Adama, Starbuck, Hotdog, the Final Five (save Anders), Caprica-Six, and a visibly weakened Laura Roslin. Baltar and his followers do not volunteer for the mission.<br />
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'''Outside [[The Colony|the Colony]]'''<br />
*Raptor 279, piloted by [[Racetrack]] and [[Skulls]], jump to the coordinates given by Anders. They complete the jump, only to be nearly hit by an asteroid. The two ex-mutineers joke about going on the mission as opposed to being locked up, when Skulls picks up readings of a naked singularity. As the Raptor slides towards the black hole, a DRADIS contact is picked up, to both their amazement.<br />
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'''Aboard ''Galactica'''''<br />
*Adama and a few others look over pictures taken by the Raptor, explaining that Anders has given them an accurate location of [[The Colony|the Colony]], but that it sits in orbit of a "naked singularity" (black hole). The only gravitationally stable entry point sits less than one click from the facility, "point-blank range," and that the facility's defenses will naturally be trained on that point. Looking at the pictures, the Admiral declares that they should "get to work".<br />
*"To be continued..."<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* This episode is the first part of a three hour series finale<ref>http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2008/06/battlestars-fin.html</ref>.<br />
* The episode does not have an opening teaser beyond the "Previously..." segment and a brief depiction of Galactica deckhands and several Baseship Number Eight pilots guiding passengers to ships and other ''Galactica'' bound ships from the Baseship. Nor does the opening credits include clips from the episode, the first time this has happened since the start of Season 3. As Part II does not have a standard opening credits sequence, this episode marked the final broadcast of the show's theme music and on-screen tally of human survivors.<br />
*We finally learn [[Sherman Cottle|Cottle]]'s first name: Sherman. Admiral Adama uses the name when telling him he's too valuable for the fleet to lose.<br />
* [[Laura Roslin]] had two sisters (one pregnant), and that they and her father were killed in an automobile accident at some point before she was appointed as Secretary of Education under the Adar Administration.<br />
* Baltar's father appears for the first time. Baltar's accent is confirmed to be an affectation, as previously revealed in [[Dirty Hands]].<br />
*A couple of years before the Fall it seems that Lee Adama liked to get drunk and carouse. This is in stark contrast post Fall to his sober and controlled demeanor who looked on with disdain over Kara's, Colonel Tigh's and even his own father's drinking problems. <br />
* Baltar specifically told [[Caprica Six]] he forgot her name, albeit it is possible that he has yet to learn it, despite having a relationship with her.<br />
* Cultural oddity: keep an eye on the rear window of Baltar's limo for a recognizable Vancouver, B.C. street sign.<br />
* After several episodes leaving the facts open to speculation, it is confirmed that the ''Galactica'' pilots that took part in the mutiny, such as [[Racetrack]], were incarcerated and not executed. Ronald D. Moore had previously said that Racetrack, [[Skulls]] and other mutiny participants were confined on the prison ship ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in his podcast for [[Deadlock]]. Also confirmed [[Galen Tyrol]] was imprisoned for his role in unwittingly helping Boomer to escape with Hera (a scene indicating this was filmed for "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]" but cut from the televised version).<br />
* For the first time in many episodes, the six surviving members of the [[Significant Seven]] appear in the same episode (although [[Leoben]] appears only in the opening recap). This was the first time appearance of a [[Doral]] or a [[Simon]] since [[The Hub]].<br />
* In the flashback to Starbuck's apartment, the painting of the Eye of Jupiter can be seen behind her when she opens the door.<br />
*As [[Hybrid]] [[Samuel Anders|Anders]] recites his seemingly random phrases to a listening Admiral Adama and Captain Thrace he says "Slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of perfection" This is a variation of a quote by [[Wikipedia:John Gillespie Magee, Jr|John Gillespie Magee, Jr.]] in his 1941 poem [[Wikipedia: High Flight|High Flight]]: "Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings..." [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/highflig.htm] The poem goes on and concludes with "Put out my hand and touched the face of God." This was quoted by Ronald Reagan much closer to Ander's rendition on January 28, 1986 when addressing the nation after the Challenger disaster "We will never forget them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."<br />
*At the end of the episode, Lee Adama wears his old Major's [[Uniforms (RDM)#Regular uniform|uniform]] (with white piping), but without his [[Military Ranks (RDM)#Insignia|rank insignia]] or [[Insignia (RDM)#Pilot wings|pilot wings]].<br />
* The known volunteers for the mission include Laura Roslin, Lee Adama, Kara Thrace, Athena, Helo, Caprica Six, the Final Five, Hoshi, Nurse Ishay, Hot Dog, Racetrack, and Skulls. Doc Cottle initially volunteers for the mission, but stays behind at Adama's request. Although Gaius Baltar does not volunteer, he seems to be highly conflicted with himself.<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
*Cavil plans to use Hera to find out how she was created in order to continue the Cylon species, presumably through normal reproduction. <br />
**It also proves Cavil intends to dissect Hera to discover the secret of procreation, confirming both Starbuck's and Athena's worst fears. <br />
*Roslin likely feels quite protective of Hera as despite being barely able to walk, she volunteers for the rescue mission (although her love for Adama likely also played a part in her decision).<br />
*Cottle may be either the best doctor in the fleet or one of the only ones as Adama says he's too valuable for the fleet to lose on the rescue mission.<br />
*Baltar seems conflicted when volunteers are called. This inner conflict stems from his earlier conversation with Lee Adama where he confessed that he had never done anything for purely selfless motivations with no gain for himself. He does not, however, cross the line and join the volunteers.<br />
** If Baltar does join, then it would seem likely that all the elements are in place to fulfill the Opera House vision: Athena, Roslin, Caprica Six and Baltar will all be in pursuit of Hera.<br />
** Baltar's Virtual Six has told him many times that he is supposed to be Hera's guardian and "father". It seems incongruous with his destiny for him not to join a mission to rescue Hera.<br />
*It's clear that despite his controversial choices, Adama still commands a great deal of loyalty and respect from the crew. Much of the crew - or at least those that are on the hangar deck at the time - volunteers for the mission. At the very least, Adama has enough people with him to take ''Galactica'' into battle. <br />
** It should be noted that although the non-volunteers appear to outnumber the volunteers at least two-to-one, many of the non-volunteers are civilians.<br />
** It should also be noted that almost all the Marines volunteer for the mission.<br />
** Also, it is likely Adama will have more volunteers than are visible on screen in the hangar deck scene. Certainly not all the crew of ''Galactica'' were on the hangar deck at the time given the size of the combined crew at this point. Doubtless some had to stay on duty (Colonel Tigh confirms this when he says in CIC that those on duty must report to Adama later to declare themselves) or were on the Cylon basestar or civilian ships helping offload Galactica's stripped parts. It was also probably impractical for the producers to muster some 3000 plus extras for this scene to show Galactica's full crew.<br />
** Given that Adama had trouble manning ''Galactica'' during the occupation of [[New Caprica]], when the ship was stated as being at half strength, it is fair to assume the Admiral is going to need roughly half the original crew compliment to carry out this last combat mission - roughly 1300 people. As stated above, this many volunteers are not seen on screen, but given some crew could volunteer later, Adama might well muster about this number in the end.<br />
*In the brig Tyrol tells Helo-who is surprisingly civil even sympathetic toward Tyrol given his hand in the abduction-that they are all the same referring to the Eights. He says it as a word of advice and warning. That they made them the same and therefore can only expect betrayal from Athena as what happened to Tyrol at the hands of Boomer. However, given the fact that he has no first hand knowledge of making the Eights and the other seven Cylon models and the psychic pain Galen suffered at the betrayal, his opinion most likely comes from deep, deep, abiding pain and not a intellectual analysis in his disregard of the individuality of Athena and the other Eights and particularly Athena's track record of loyalty. This also maybe a case of misery loves company and Tyrol, subconsciously or knowingly, wants to see Helo and Athena split up to allay his own feelings of being duped, by saying they are all a like and putting doubt in Helo's mind. Also, by claiming that Athena and the other Eights are just machines this could mitigate the guilt for his role in the abduction and possible death of Hera. If Athena is just a machine, then she cannot be hurt emotionally. She has no emotions, just a programmed facsimile. Tyrol wouldn't have to feel responsible for such pain he caused her since, as a machine, she can't really feel it, sparing '''''himself''''' a lot of pain and guilt.<br />
*Tyrol is himself a Cylon machine, so his rant speaks of denial and projected self-hatred as well as bitterness.<br />
*The finale appears to be taking a character-driven approach, devoting significant screen time to pivotal flashbacks for the central characters that relate to their current circumstances. <br />
**We see the first time Starbuck and Apollo' met, with hints alluding to their future romantic relationship.<br />
**Roslin deals with the sudden death of her sisters and father by wading into a fountain, which she uses to disguise the tears that she shed for the lost of her family. The gushing water cuts to a shot of her IV drip as she lies dying on Galactica.<br />
**Baltar and Caprica-Six begin their relationship with an act of compassion on Six's part towards Baltar's father. Baltar's selfishness, a theme raised repeatedly in the episode, is contrasted with Caprica Six's seemingly genuine concern for [[Julius Baltar|Julius]].<br />
*One of the shots in the opening sequence is of a sun rising over a blue planet: daybreak. The theme may symbolize an end to the fleet's long four years of gloom and darkness.<br />
**In that image of the planet, Antarctica is clearly seen, specifically the Ronne Ice Shelf, Queen Maud Land, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Where southern South America and southern Africa would be, the surface is covered by clouds, and the location of southern Australia/New Zealand is too dark. Although not as recognizable as the image of North America in [[Crossroads, Part II]], it is clear that the planet shown here is our Earth. <br />
***Despite the similarities, the sun and the stars are in the wrong position for this to be our Earth. More than likely, the planet being depicted is Caprica. Especially when the sequence is taken as a whole: The Galaxy, Sun rise over a planet, In orbit over the planet, then a helicopter like fly over of Caprica City heavily implies that was Caprica as the planet we saw. <br />
*Hera is drawing "dots", as Cavil calls them, on the Colony. These are much more numerous than the simple line that she gave Starbuck, its at least a full page long. It seems to be an entire musical score. However, not knowing that they are music notes, Cavil doesn't see this.<br />
*Someone left a picture of Athena about to kiss Hera on the head on the now abandoned memorial wall. It may have been Athena herself, who has given up on Hera's survival.<br />
* Baltar's reaction to Lee's accusation that he has never done a selfless thing in his life shows how much the character of Baltar has grown, especially in the Fourth Season. Previously, whenever someone called Baltar's motives or attributes (especially his loyalty) into question, he reacted very passionately, and angrily, to defend himself (and often led to him being coaxed into doing what Virtual Six wanted, to the detriment of the humans in the fleet). On this occasion, however, Baltar not only does not even attempt to defend himself, he resignedly admits that he wouldn't trust him either (tacitly admitting both that Lee is correct in his assertion and that his self-serving actions have been extremely detrimental in the past). This change in attitude visibly surprises Lee who seems quite taken aback and appears to momentarily contemplate talking to Baltar again when he returns to the Hanger Deck.<br />
* Adama's decision to rescue Hera was prompted by Constanza's remarks about saving the photos of his fallen comrades because he didn't want to leave them behind. It should not then be surprising to see that Constanza was one of the first pilots (not counting Lee Adama) to cross the line and join in the potential suicide mission with Adama.<br />
* Anders' flashback of his life before the War contains an interesting aspect of Anders not seen before. Though he was implanted with memories of being a "jock", but when he candidly spoke to the sports reporter, he revealed a more intellectual and artistic side of himself. This may be a hint of his former personality (a scientist and musician) before Cavil blocked his memories.<br />
* In a humorous side commentary, Skulls points out that many of the dangerous or lethal Raptor missions are usually given to him and Racetrack. Historically, this has been true as the duo have been pivotal for discoveries such as New Caprica, receiving the first message from the Resistance, discovering that the Cylons were tracking the fleet to the Nebula, propulsion problems (exploding engine) due to contaminated jet fuel.<br />
* Skull's comment of "The more things change the more they stay the same." is a different twist of quoting the Pythian Prophecy that "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again." The phrase is a common proverb in English, indicating that surface changes only serve to reveal enduring underlying constants. It is derived from a French epigram by novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890), "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."<br />
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== Questions ==<br />
=== Flashbacks ===<br />
* To what is Adama's flashback conversation referring? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* Who was the drunk driver that killed Roslin's sisters and father? Is he alive in the fleet today?<br />
* Who is Sean Allison and why does his name sound familiar to Roslin? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* What is the time frame for the flashbacks, and is it the same for all characters?<br />
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===Mission to save Hera=== <br />
* How many of the jailed mutineers volunteer to participate in the mission?<br />
* As the episode began, ''Galactica'' was already being cannibalized for parts; does this mean it will be lacking vital components during the upcoming mission, or has Adama stopped the salvaging?<br />
* Will Boomer help Hera escape? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
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===Cavil's Plan===<br />
* Has Cavil given up on the idea of salvaging Resurrection Technology? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
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===Miscellaneous===<br />
*With [[William Adama|Commander Adama]], [[Saul Tigh|XO Tigh]], [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] and [[Lee Adama|Vice-President Lee Adama]] all joining the Hera rescue mission, who will assume military and political leadership of the Fleet? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* With [[Hotdog]] being one of the volunteers, and especially being aware that he may not return alive, who will take care of Nicholas?<br />
*With Tyrol on the rebound from Sharon Valerii, will Tory Foster and Tyrol renew their romance despite not having their original memories? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* At the very beginning of the episode, an image of the galaxy is displayed which includes several prominent stars in bright colors... is there a connection to Hera's multicolored "dots"? Do her notes represent stars, and will the sequence provide a map that leads to somewhere?<br />
* Will the Cylon baseship remain with the civilian fleet or will they also join in on the rescue mission to save Hera? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
*''In his podcast for [[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]], Ronald D. Moore stated that there will be no independent podcast for Daybreak Part I. Instead a single podcast would be made for all three hours including the two hour series finale [[Daybreak, Part II]] and posted at the scifi.com site.'' [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast.php] (00':30")<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
:"No one should feel obligated to join this mission in any way. This is a decision I have made for myself. If it turns out that there are not enough personnel to crew [[Galactica|''Galactica'']], I will lead a [[Raptor]] assault with anyone who is willing to join me. Let there be no illusions; this is likely to be a one-way trip! So don't volunteer out of sentiment or emotion. There is a line running down this deck. Volunteers, move to the starboard side; Everyone else, to the port. Make your choice!"<br />
::--[[William_Adama|Admiral Adama's]] speech to the assembled crew.<br />
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:"You didn't think you were gonna to take off without me Admiral, did you?"<br />
::--[[Laura Roslin]] volunteering for the rescue mission despite barely being able to walk.<br />
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:"Spins and turns, angles and curves. The shape of dreams, half remembered. Slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of perfection - a perfect face, perfect lace. Find the perfect world for the end of Kara Thrace. End of line."<br />
::--[[Samuel Anders|Anders]]'s hybrid-speak when powered on to speak with [[Kara Thrace]] and [[William_Adama|Admiral Adama]].<br />
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:"She’s right, Gaius. The end times are approaching. Humanity’s final chapters are about to be written. And you - you will be its author."<br />
::--[[Virtual Six]] to [[Gaius Baltar]].<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]<br />
* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]<br />
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Number One]]<br />
* [[Rick Worthy]] as [[Number Four]]<br />
* [[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]<br />
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]]<br />
* [[Bodie Olmos]] as Lieutenant [[Brendan Costanza|Brenden "Hotdog" Costanza]]<br />
* [[Kerry Norton]] as [[Layne Ishay]]<br />
* [[Lara Gilchrist]] as [[Paulla Schaffer]]<br />
* [[Leela Savasta]] as [[Tracy Anne]]<br />
* [[Tobias Mehler]] as [[Zak Adama]]<br />
* [[Leah Cairns]] as Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson]]<br />
* [[Brad Dryborough]] as Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]]<br />
* [[Colin Lawrence]] as Lieutenant [[Hamish McCall|Hamish "Skulls" McCall]]<br />
* [[Colin Corrigan]] as Marine [[Allan Nowart]]<br />
* [[Darcy Laurie]] as [[Dealino]]<br />
* [[Finn R. Devitt]] as [[Nicholas Tyrol]]<br />
* [[Iliana Gomez-Martinez]] as [[Hera Agathon]]<br />
* [[Antony Holland]] as [[Julius Baltar]]<br />
* [[Simone Bailly]] as [[Shona]]<br />
* [[Elan Ross Gibson]] as Nurse [[Barbara]]<br />
* [[France Perras]] as [[Sandra Roslin]]<br />
* [[Sarah Deakins]] as [[Cheryl Roslin]]<br />
* [[Tiffany Burns]] as Reporter [[Carolyn]]<br />
* [[Kevin McNulty]] as [[Frank Porthos]]<br />
* [[Stefanie Samuels]] as Police Officer<br />
* [[Richard Jollymore]] as Marine #1<br />
* [[Anthony St. John]] as Marine #2<br />
* [[Leo Li Chiang]] as the [[tattooed pilot]] (uncredited)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Episode list (RDM season 4)}}<br />
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[[Category:Episodes written by Ronald D. Moore]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Michael Rymer]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Islanded_in_a_Stream_of_Stars&diff=178335Islanded in a Stream of Stars2009-04-05T12:04:56Z<p>Str1977: /* Analysis */</p>
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| image=IslandintheStars.jpg<br />
| title=Islanded In a Stream of Stars<br />
| season= 4<br />
| episode=18<br />
| guests=<br />
| writer= [[Michael Taylor]]<br />
| story=<br />
| director= [[Edward James Olmos]]<br />
| production=420<br />
| rating=1,568,000 viewers (Live+SD)<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/10/icarly-burn-notice-and-wwe-raw-top-cable-charts/14228|title=iCarly, Burn Notice and WWE RAW top cable charts|date=10 March 2009|accessdate=11 March 2009|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
| US airdate=March 6, 2009<br />
| CAN airdate=March 6, 2009<br />
| UK airdate=March 10, 2009<br />
| dvd=<br />
| population=39521<br />
| oldpopulation=39556<br />
| prev=[[Someone to Watch Over Me]]<br />
| next=[[Daybreak, Part I]]<br />
| forumthread= 2892<br />
| hulu=Y<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
''As Galactica's condition continues to get worse, [[William Adama|Adama]] is faced with the possibility of abandoning ship. In the meantime, [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] winds up forming an unexpected bond with [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] learns a surprising truth about [[Kara Thrace]].''<br />
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==Summary==<br />
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===Teaser===<br />
* With [[Sharon Valerii]]'s kidnapping of [[Hera Agathon]] and her escape, the spatial disruption caused by the close-proximity [[FTL|jump]] of her [[Raptor]] causes an immense breach in the port side of the alligator's head of ''[[Galactica]]''<br />
* [[Hera]] is in the [[War Room]] playing with models of ''Galactica'', three [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raiders]] and a [[Basestar (RDM)|baseship]]. A quick cut depicts her running down a hallway in the [[Opera House]]. She moves the ''Galactica'' model in to collide with the baseship as the scene fades to the actual ''Galactica'' and her [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]].<br />
* Inside, crew of all kinds, both from the allied Cylons and Colonials, are trying to seal the breach. Tempers are high: a [[Number Six]] and another human crew member argue. Eventually a [[Number Eight]] comes to break the two up.<br />
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* In Admiral [[William Adama|Adama's]] quarters, [[Ellen Tigh]] speaks about Hera's abduction as [[Lee Adama]], [[Kara Thrace]] and [[Saul Tigh]] listen. Ellen believes that [[Cavil]] will take Hera to the [[Cylon homeworld]] for study, to determine how Cylon procreation is possible. Saul completes Ellen's thought by saying that she knows the Cylon colony's location.<br />
* While Lee Adama objects to the disproportionate risk in retrieving Hera, not only does Ellen indicate that the child is important for the survival of all the Cylons, but Thrace tells Lee that Hera is vital to the humans' survival as well.<br />
* She explains how Hera wrote some [[The Music|music]]--notes that Thrace's father wrote--the same song that switched on the [[Final Five]] and led them all to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]].<br />
* But the admiral is "had it up to here" with prophesies and destinies. He doesn't want to endanger what's left of his people.<br />
* When Saul convinces Adama to at least check out the colony, Adama permits a [[Heavy Raider]] to go, preferring that the Agathons not know.<br />
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* In the Agathons' quarters, [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon]] is breaking down, as her [[Karl Agathon|husband]] tries to get her to talk and vent her feelings.<br />
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* [[Laura Roslin]], now in sickbay and noticeably weakened, experiences the [[Opera House]] dream of Hera running through it, eventually being picked up by a Number Six and [[Gaius Baltar]]. She wakes to find the admiral at her side, and tells him of the dream.<br />
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* A seam on the battlestar's hull fractures with cataclysmic results. Dozens of people, both Cylon and human, are trapped inside, the rushing air and falling pressure sealing their fate.<br />
* The Six and human male that argued earlier are closest to a bulkhead door. With all her strength, she pushes the Colonial in front and to the door's edge as two other Colonials pull him in. She screams to close the door behind her and lock it.<br />
* As the door is sealed, the Six loses her grip and is blown out into space.<br />
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===Act 1 and beyond===<br />
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{{cleanup}}<br />
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Lee Adama struggles to convince the newly-elected Fleet Quorum that ''Galactica'' can be saved, but many councilors are worried about becoming dependent on the Cylons for military protection. Once the Galactica meets its inevitable demise, the basestar will be the logical choice for the new flagship. [[Number Six#Sonja|Sonja]] assures them that the Cylons will continue to respect William Adama's military authority when he transfers to the Basestar, along with the rest of Galactica's crew and their planes and munitions. Other representatives begin calling first dibs on certain parts of ''Galactica'', which will of course be stripped once its time is up. Laura Roslin's cancer is killing her, and she is now confined to bed in the ship's hospital. She gradually convinces Admiral Adama that he has to abandon Galactica and move everyone over to the Cylon Basestar. Ellen Tigh tries to convince Colonel Saul Tigh that Roslin is right, but he refuses: The decision is Adm. Adama's alone.<br />
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Karl Agathon's marriage to Sharon Valerii is falling apart, as she cannot overcome the loss of her child, Hera, or the knowledge that her husband had sexual intercourse with the Number Eight known as "Boomer". Trying to save his marriage, Helo tries to get Adm. Adama to approve the launching of a Raptor to find Hera. Adama has already permitted Sonja, the Cylon representative on the new Quorum, to secretly take a Heavy Raider to the Cylon homeworld, known as "[[the Colony]]". The Colony though has already been moved to a new location by Cavil prior to the [[Cylon Civil War]]; sending Helo out in a Raptor to look for it would be a suicide mission. Adama finally refuses to give permission, to which Helo appears devastated.<br />
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Gaius Baltar continues his religious broadcasts to the Fleet, and his latest message focuses on angels walking among humanity. Baltar encounters Caprica Six, who rejects his romantic overtures. She tells him she's changed and that he has not. Baltar breaks down over the loss of his former lover. Later, Kara Thrace meets Baltar while they are both in the ship's head. Kara tells him that she died on Earth, and discovered her own body there. She gives him her dog tag to analyze. He scrapes blood from the dog tag, and finds it came from a body which was already dead. When the ''Galactica'' crew, Cylons, and Baltar's believers meet on ''Galactica'''s flight deck to bury those who died in the hull breach, Baltar reveals what he discovered about Starbuck and calls her an angel. He preaches about eternal life, but Starbuck slaps him and the service breaks up. Later, Apollo meets with Starbuck and offers her his unconditional love and support. They part as friends. Starbuck puts a photo of herself on the memorial wall of the dead.<br />
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Aboard the stolen Raptor, Hera keeps crying for her mother, infuriating Boomer. Boomer almost sedates the child, but cannot bring herself to do so; they keep jumping toward their destination. In an attempt to calm Hera, Boomer reveals her "Cylon projection" dreamworld to Hera. Hera can see the world, too, and bonds with Boomer. Boomer begins to develop strong emotional ties to the child. When the two arrive at [[the Colony]], a large Cylon space station, Cavil takes Hera from Boomer and declares that soon she will have many playmates. The child weeps and calls out for Boomer, and Boomer also sheds copious tears unwilling to part from Hera.<br />
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After an emotional breakdown, Adm. Adama realizes the ship must be abandoned. He meets with Col. Tigh, who initially resists the evacuation order but gives in after a brief discussion. All civilians are to be removed over the next few days, arrangements are to be made to put the military personnel aboard the basestar, and ''Galactica'' is to be stripped for parts. Rather than let the ship break down, Adama intends to "send her off in style."<br />
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A Number Eight and Number Six have hooked [[Samuel Anders]] up to a [[Hybrid]] tank in a an attempt to help his brain reboot, but there is no apparent change. Kara Thrace goes to Anders' bedside alone, and decides to kill him rather than let him live in a vegetative state. But as she aims a gun at his head, Anders comes awake. He babbles like a Hybrid, but his ravings also indicate that he's aware of the threat to his life. With one hand, he subdues Starbuck and she drops the pistol. Anders continues to babble, but some of his rants indicate that he is reintegrating, perhaps even repairing, his mind. ''Galactica'''s power and temperature fluctuations were because Anders was connecting to the ship, as the Hybrid tank and the Cylon polymer used to repair the battlestar are giving him the power to interact with the ship's computers. Tigh deems this too dangerous to continue, as Anders might jump the ship. Anders is disconnected from the Hybrid tank, and he falls into a coma again.<br />
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A few days later, Starbuck meets with the comatose Anders. She brings Hera's drawing of the song (the song which helped awaken the Final Five in the episode "Crossroads", and about which further complications were revealed in the episode prior to this one, "Someone to Watch Over Me"), and states assertively, that together, they will discover what is going on. She reconnects him to the ship's power systems. He awakens again, and begins speaking in the unique phrases of a hybrid.<br />
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== Notes == <br />
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* The title comes from the book ''[[w:The Outermost House|The Outermost House]]'', by [[w:Henry Beston|Henry Beston]], where he chronicles his time spent living on an isolated beach in Cape Cod. In the chapter "Night on the Great Beach" he wrote, "For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world ''islanded in its stream of stars''— pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time."<br />
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* Two original Cylon Raiders can be seen inside the Colony.<br />
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* [[Ellen Tigh]] leads the Cylons in performing the [[Prayer to the Cloud of Unknowing]] at the service.<br />
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* The Six that gives her life to save that of a ''Galactica'' crewmember is yet another example of a Six with a unique personality, this time one closer in tone to the "working-class" attitude exhibited by ''Galactica's'' human maintenance crew (aka the "knuckle-draggers").<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
* This episode is the first to show repairs to the outer hull of ''Galactica''. As with the earlier repairs to the [[Space Park]], scaffolding, support Raptors and repair crewmen in space suits are seen trying to patch the breach. Presumably this is not the first time ''Galactica'' has undergone makeshift repairs given the pounding she has taken. However this time the endemic damage to the hull makes the repairs much more challenging.<br />
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*When [[Caprica-Six]] was at [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar's]] congregation he spoke to her about hearing about her living arrangement and offered a place to stay. From this it seems after the in utero death of [[Liam|Liam Tigh]], [[Saul Tigh]] and Caprica Six have broken up as a couple. As a side effect, Col. Tigh has reverted to his "us" and "them" attitude{{fact}} toward Cylons as a whole despite himself and his wife being Cylons including an increase of anti Cylon "racial" slurs.<br />
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*[[Chief Tyrol]] was no where to be seen in this episode. Even crewman [[Dealino]] gives a report to both [[Admiral Adama]] and [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] of what the attitudes of the Cylons, particularly the [[Leoben]]s, thought as to how many jumps ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' had left in her. [[Bear McCreary]] reveals<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1671</ref> there is an extended scene on the DVD which shows Chief Tyrol is being held in ''Galactica'''s brig for his part in [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer's]] escape.<br />
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*[[Hera Agathon|Hera]] demonstrates the ability to [[projection|project]], which surprises Boomer. <br />
* It is possible that the opening shot of the episode is a projection of Hera's. If so, it is also possible that Hera's projections are prophetic in nature. She pushes the model of ''Galactica'' into a model of a basestar, which could hint at an eventual confrontation between ''Galactica'' and the Cylons.<br />
*In sickbay, Adama and Roslin reminisce about New Caprica and about the cabin they wanted to build but can't. This scene is in its own way similar to the scene in which Boomer and Tyrol shared a projection of the house they had intended to build on Picon. As humans, Adama and Roslin can only conjure up fond memories and regrets in their own mind's eyes. Both couples know that it is never to be, building their dream houses.<br />
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*Helo wanted Athena to say that she hated him because he saw it in her eyes. She almost did. In a close up of her lips her mouth parted slightly but then closed. This is most likely for him sleeping with Boomer, who subsequently took Hera. Athena probably understands that Helo couldn't prevent the kidnapping but she probably feels that he should had known that it was not Athena he was sleeping with. It is however conceivable she could blame him for the taking of Hera if she thinks that if he realized that it wasn't her he could had had Boomer captured even before she got near Hera.<br />
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*In the episode we saw what is essentially the [[The Colony|Cylon homeworld]]. [[Ellen Tigh]] explained in a meeting with Admiral Adama, Lee Adama, Tory Foster, Saul Tigh, and Kara Thrace where the Cylons (including the [[Final Five]]) were for the past 40 years: "I guess you can call it home. It's where we and the Centurions went after the [[Cylon War|First War]] once we convinced them to abandon their own experiments with evolution in exchange for [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology." In the show's timeline Cavil's faction moved the Colony to its present location five months ago just prior to the Cylon Civil War. It is large space station built with the same biological design principles like the [[Baseships]].<br />
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*Adama's heavy drinking, pill-popping and unprofessional behavior over the last few episodes seems to recall [[Romo Lampkin]]'s comment that "the soldier in him has had enough" in [[The Son Also Rises]].<br />
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* Galactica, nicknamed [[the Bucket]], suffers a severe hull breach at the beginning of the episode. Among the "random" phrases hybrid-Anders spouts are the lyrics of the Earth folk song "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_hole_in_the_bucket There's a Hole in My Bucket]". Helo tells Adama that he is "painting over the holes in this bucket."<br />
** "There's a Hole in My Bucket" is an example of an infinite loop. After several verses describing the intermediate steps required to fix the bucket, it is ultimately revealed that the initial problem--the hole--may only be resolved by gathering water in the self-same bucket. In other words, all this has happened before, and will happen again.<br />
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* A corpse produces "death enzymes" as it decomposes. Its likely Baltar found high concentrations of these enzymes on Starbuck's dogtags.<br />
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* This episode specifically highlights the existence of 'angels' that walk amongst the humans. Baltar of course was referring to his Virtual-Six, but it applies to Caprica-Six's own Viritual-Baltar and the only unseen characters that have appear throughout the show. Another interesting fact to note is that the [[First Hybrid]]'s prophecy before his death was how the humans and Cylons will be gathered in the arms of an angel and carried into the promised land.<br />
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* Kara Thrace is called an angel by Baltar during his declaration of eternal life after he examined Thrace's dogtag. She has also been referred or linked to the Goddess Aurora, who guides ships to safe harbors and who resembles what is typically thought of as 'angels.' Thrace's other title from the Hybrids as the harbinger of death may be another spin on her 'angelic' nature as the manifestations of angels in modern day world religions are considered to be signs of the end times.<br />
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== Questions ==<br />
* What does Cavil mean when he tells Hera that she will soon have new playmates?<br />
* How conscious is Anders?<br />
* Is there a parallel between Anders' recitation of a real-world folk song, "There's a Hole in My Bucket," and the use of the real-world song "All Along the Watchtower"?<br />
* Will Boomer defect from Cavil because of her new attachment to Hera? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* Does the presence of First Cylon War-era Cylon Raiders at the Colony indicate the presence of older-model [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]], too? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* Does Cavil intend to pursue biological reproduction, recreate the resurrection process, or both?<br />
* Is there some way of finding the Colony? ([[Daybreak, Part I|Answer]])<br />
* Do the Eights consider the rest of the Final Five their parents, as they consider Saul Tigh to be their father? Do other models also regard some or all of the Final Five as parental figures?<br />
* Is the Colony the Final Five's original ship, or an outgrowth of it? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars#Official Statements|Answer]])<br />
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== Official Statements ==<br />
*''In his podcast for this episode Ronald D. Moore stated:''<br />
:That Gas Giant that Boomer jumped in next to while she was heading for [[The Colony]] with Hera was '''''not''''' Jupiter.(14':10")<br />
:Kara Thrace was going to kill Sam Anders. In other words if he didn't grab her arm she would had '''definitely''' pulled the trigger (22':30")<br />
:In response to some fans criticisms that the show focused to much on relationships and not enough action RDM says the show was ''first'' a drama and second a science fiction series. The show was about people and their relationship to each other that was foremost. (25':10")<br />
:Daniel is not Kara Thrace's father. Further, Daniel plays no role in events other than being Abel to Cavil's Cain. Daniel's murder and the destruction of his line was a point of illustration on the character of John Cavil, nothing more.<br />
:The Colony was built around the Final Five's original sublight ship.<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
* ''[[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] fulfills a request to comfort to a dying [[Number Eight]]:''<br />
:'''Number Eight:''' (weakly, child like) Thank you.<br />
:'''Tigh:''' Thank me? For what?<br />
:'''Number Eight:''' For the privilege of finally being able to meet my father before I die.<br />
:'''Tigh:''' You shouldn't be thanking me. I spent most of my life trying to kill your kind.<br />
:'''Number Eight:''' [[The Music|Too much confusion]]. <br />
:''(Death rattle, the Eight flatlines)''<br />
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* ''[[Bill Adama]] is talking with Kara Thrace about looking for Hera:''<br />
: '''Adama:''' In other words, it's our destiny to go after her, right? <br />
: '''Thrace:''' ''(facial expressions and body language indicates "yes")'' <br />
: '''Adama:''' Wrong. I've had it up to here with destiny, prophecy, with God or the Gods. Look where it's left us. The ass end of nowhere; nearly half of our people are gone; Earth, a worthless cinder; and I can't even walk down the halls of my ship without wondering if I'm gonna catch a bullet for getting us into this mess.<br />
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*'' Ellen Tigh and Saul Tigh are in their quarters and Ellen is trying to get a reluctant Saul to acknowledge his responsibility for his fellow Cylon's interest in survival.''<br />
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:'''Ellen:''' Whether you remember that life or not, at least you must understand what we were trying to do. We wanted to end the cycle of war between man and machine.<br />
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:'''Tigh:''' That was a bust.<br />
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:'''Ellen''' ''(frustrated)'': Yes, we failed, but we have a second chance now: Hera. Without her our children are going to die off one by one, just like they're dying right now in Cottle's sickbay.<br />
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:'''Tigh:''' I had a child. He died. <br />
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:'''Ellen''' ''(thinks for a moment)'': You're wrong Saul ''(caresses his left cheek, shakes her head)'' You have millions.<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
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* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]<br />
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[Sherman Cottle]]<br />
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]<br />
* [[Iliana Gomez-Martinez]] as [[Hera Agathon]]<br />
* [[Dean Stockwell]] as [[Number One]]<br />
*[[Bodie Olmos]] as Lieutenant [[Brendan Costanza|Brenden "Hotdog" Constanza]]<br />
* [[David Patrick Green]] as Captain [[Xeno Fenner]]<br />
* [[Kerry Norton]] as [[Layne Ishay]]<br />
* [[Lara Gilchrist]] as [[Paulla Schaffer]]<br />
* [[Leela Savasta]] as [[Tracy Anne]]<br />
* [[Darcy Laurie]] as [[Dealino]]<br />
* [[Susan Hogan]] Captain [[Doyle Franks]]<br />
* [[William Samples]] as Captain [[Greene]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Episode list (RDM season 4)}}<br />
[[Category:Episodes written by Michael Taylor]]<br />
[[Category:Episodes directed by Edward James Olmos]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=By_your_command&diff=178334By your command2009-04-05T11:53:10Z<p>Str1977: /* Re-imagined Series usage */</p>
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<div>"'''By your command'''" is arguably the most popular phrase of the ''Battlestar Galactica'' saga.<br />
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==Original Series usage==<br />
* "''By your command''" spoken by an [[Centurion (TOS)|original series Centurion]]: {{audio|TOS By Your Command.mp3|listen}}<br/><br />
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The phrase is frequently said by the robotic soldiers of the [[Cylons (TOS)|Cylon Empire]] in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] in a neutral metallic voice as the affirmative response to an order from another Cylon Centurion, the [[Imperious Leader]], or other authority (including [[Baltar (TOS)|Baltar]]). The phrase is iconic of the Cylons' nature as a robotic race, becoming something of a 'catchphrase' of the series.<br />
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==Re-imagined Series usage==<br />
* "''By your command''" spoken by a [[Number Six]] [[humanoid Cylon]]: {{audio|Mini Series By Your Command.mp3|listen}}<br />
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In the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]], the phrase has been said twice by copies of [[Number Six]], once to a copy of [[Sharon Valerii]] in response to finding the escaped [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of refugee survivors of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocidal Cylon attack]] on the Colonies ([[Miniseries]]), and again (barely audible) in the episode "[[Colonial Day]]".<br />
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Since these Cylons appear to run their fleet by consensus, the use of "By your command" may be less of a command acknowledgment. The use of the phrase may be more analogous to the Colonial affirmation "[[So say we all]]".<br />
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The catchphrase is also used in "[[Razor]]" by [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|old model Cylons]] attacking ''Pegasus''. These old model Cylons belong to a group of Centurions known as "Guardians" who escaped being scrapped when the model was phased out.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*A friend of [[Ronald D. Moore]], ''[[w:Roswell (TV series)|Roswell]]'' writer Breen Frazier, indicated to Moore that he was surprised that the popular phrase from the Original Series was missing from the early script of the [[Miniseries]]. Moore recalled that Breen asked how could the new show be called ''Battlestar Galactica'', without the use of the phrase, "By your command". Therefore it was added at the very end (Source: ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion]]'').<br />
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| title= Someone To Watch Over Me<br />
| season= 4<br />
| episode=17<br />
| guests=<br />
| writer= [[Bradley Thompson]] <br/> [[David Weddle]] <br />
| story=<br />
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== Overview ==<br />
:''[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] discovers a hidden musical ability that bears a mysterious significance to the final five Cylons, and her tune is found to have a connection with three-year-old human-Cylon hybrid [[Hera Agathon|Hera]]. The president authorizes [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]]'s extradition from the brig so she can stand trial for treason on the Cylon baseship.''<ref>http://www.locatetv.com/tv/battlestar-galactica/season-4/6118356</ref><br />
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== Summary ==<br />
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=== Teaser ===<br />
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* [[Kara Thrace]] gets out of her bunk and opens her locker. Looking in the mirror, she momentarily sees the image of her own corpse found on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] in the reflection. Disturbed, Kara takes out the bloodstained dog tags recovered from the corpse and stares at them, silently brooding to herself.<br />
* Kara goes through her daily routine - showering, dressing, giving the Cylon and Colonial pilots their assignments, doing paperwork, and drinking at the bar.<br />
* [[The Fleet (RDM)|The Fleet]] is still searching for a habitable planet. ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' is now experiencing frequent power losses and plumbing disruptions due to the ongoing repair work.<br />
* [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] informs [[Admiral Adama]], [[Lee Adama]], and [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]] that the repairs and the Cylon organic substance will buy the ship a few more jumps, but not many. The admiral states that he isn't ready to give up just yet.<br />
* Lee congratulates Sonja, a [[Number Six]] model, on her appointment as the Cylons' representative to the newly-formed Quorum of Ships' Captains.<br />
* Sonja makes a formal request that Boomer be returned to the Cylons. When Adama starts to protest that Boomer tried to kill him, Sonja explains that they don't want Boomer set free. They want to try Boomer for treason, as she sided with [[Cavil]] in the [[Cylon Civil War]].<br />
* When Lee asks what will happen to Boomer if she's convicted, Sonja says that with the loss of their ability to resurrect, the Cylons can now implement capital punishment.<br />
* Tyrol realizes what this means: the Cylons are going to kill Boomer.<br />
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=== Act 1 ===<br />
* ''Galactica'' continues to experience tremors and power fluctuations all across the ship.<br />
* Kara, Doc Cottle, and the Cylons are observing Anders, who is still not conscious despite showing brain activity. Cottle has no explanation for any of this.<br />
* When the Cylons theorize that Anders' brain is "rebooting," Cottle tells them that he does not want to hear their "quack" ideas. He also tells Kara that it is time to "move on" with her life.<br />
* After Cottle leaves, Kara starts to cry.<br />
* In Joe's Bar, Kara complains to the piano player about performing "the same lame-ass song" over and over. He counters, saying that he has been in the process of composing for four days, and that his music is meant to bring beauty to a terrible existence. Kara reacts angrily, asking him rhetorically whether his music stopped one bomb during the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies.<br />
* Human and Cylon workers are struggling to repair ''Galactica''. Tyrol looks up from his own work and stares at a Cylon Eight. He recalls moments spent with Boomer, good and bad. In his mind, he asks, "How many of us ended up with the people we really wanted to be with?"<br />
* Kara visits Helo's quarters, who surprises her with a box of Kara's belongings, found and bought and stolen back over the past few months since her return. She takes only one item from the box, a cassette tape labeled "Dreilide Thrace Live at the Helice Opera House." Before Kara leaves, Hera hands her a crayon drawing of stars.<br />
* Tyrol visits Boomer in the reinforced brig reserved for Cylons. The two look at each other tentatively for a moment before beginning to talk. Boomer explains New Caprica as a "way to set things right" with Tyrol after her shooting of William Adama. They both admit thinking about one another on a daily basis. Boomer puts her hand on the glass. Tyrol reaches out--and is instantly transported to the house they had planned to build on Picon after mustering out of the Colonial Fleet. Tyrol is confused and angered by the illusion, disconnects from Boomer, and runs away.<br />
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=== Act 2 ===<br />
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=== Act 3 ===<br />
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=== Act 4 ===<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
* [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Caprica-Six]] do not appear in this episode. As with the previous episode, [[Lee Adama]] appears in only a couple of scenes.<br />
* "[[Wikipedia:Someone to Watch Over Me (song)|Someone To Watch Over Me]]" is the name of a song composed by [[Wikipedia:George Gershwin|George]] and [[Wikipedia:Ira Gershwin|Ira Gershwin]], and featured in the musical [[Wikipedia:Oh, Kay!|''Oh, Kay!'']] A major theme of the song is the need to find love and acceptance, something [[Sharon Valerii]], [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Kara Thrace]] are all seeking in their own ways. <br />
** There was also an episode of [[w:Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek: Voyager]] named for the song, in which it is performed at the end by The Doctor.<br />
* Weeks have passed since the end of [[Gaeta's Mutiny|the mutiny]], as evidenced by [[Cottle]]'s comment about how long Anders' EKG readings have remained steady, and Starbuck's comment about how long she has repeated the same mission briefing.<br />
* Starbuck acknowledges, in her address to the other pilots, that the mutiny has "thinned our numbers". This, combined with the apparent absence of pilots such as [[Margaret Edmonson]] and [[Diana Seelix]], confirms their involvement in the mutiny did not go unpunished, although exactly what that punishment is remains unknown.<br />
** In the Podcast for "[[Deadlock]]" RDM states that all the mutineers were imprisoned on the [[Astral Queen]].<br />
* After her apparent death in "[[Maelstrom]]", Kara's personal belongings were auctioned off. Helo has managed to get them all back for her. However, the only thing Kara is interested in is the tape of her father's music.<br />
* Some of the music played by the mysterious piano player is from the original series. [[Numian's 3rd Sonata]], Second Movement, is in fact from the opening dialogue of the classic series ("There are those who believe that life here, began out there..."), and the original [[Cylon]] musical cue is derived from that tune as well. This is not the first time music from the original series has shown up (i.e. the [[Colonial Anthem]]), and lends to the idea that everything 'has happened before, and will happen again'.<br />
* The brand of "[[The_Twelve_Colonies_%28RDM%29#Tauron|Tauron]] toothpaste" offered as a prize to the pilots is called "[[Felgercarb (RDM)|Felgercarb]]," a word used in the [[Original Series]] to mean "shit." Tauron comes from Taurus the bull. In essence, Kara is offering the pilot who finds a new planet "bullshittoothpaste".<br />
* The collection of named [[Number Six]] models expands with the addition of [[Sonja]], who becomes the first Cylon to be elected to the Fleet's reconstituted Quorum.<br />
*When Tyrol visits and talks to Boomer for the first time in the Brig, during the conversation Boomer calls Tyrol "Galen" for the first time, at least publicly and on screen. In past episodes, both Boomer and Athena usually referred to their significant others with their callsigns/titles. For Athena, it was always referring to Agathon as Helo. For Boomer, it was always referring to Tyrol as Chief. Athena was the first of the two to break that tradition, noticeable after the two married. Boomer's shared projection with Tyrol and their imaginary marriage may be the reason why she ceased calling him solely "Chief."<br />
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== Analysis ==<br />
===Galactica's condition ===<br />
*FTL jumps appear to create spatial distortions that can seriously strain a ships hull. Although bad hull damage does not necessarily prevent a ship from jumping (as has been seen many times before in the seasons, for example ''Pegasus'' - which jumped after being hit by three nuclear missiles in [[The Captain's Hand]]) the threat to ''Galactica'' has been compounded by the added riddling of the entire aged superstructure with microfractures. Tigh expresses concern that a jump within the flight pod will seriously strain the internal integrity of the ship. Boomer's FTL jump does eventually appear to cause a chain reaction of hull collapses along ''Galactica's'' port side, a side visibly weakened by Cylon attack, and suffering general aging in the 50+ year old ship's structure.<br />
*The port side of ''Galactica'' which suffers damage in this episode has been seen specifically to suffer major stress before now- particularly during the [[Battle of New Caprica]] when it was mentioned that explosive decompressions were imminent in that section. That side of the ship also saw the port water tank blow out in [[Water]]-as well as damage from a nuclear explosion incurred during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]] though these seemed to be repaired it no doubt contributed to the area's hull fatigue.<br />
* Many individuals express fears of the damage an FTL jump can do to ''Galactica'', implying FTL jumps place serious strains on a ships hull–or even the hull of a ship nearby and a degree of hull integrity is important to allow a ship to continue jumping for continued periods. This appears quite a new phenomenon in the canon of the show and was not mentioned in previous seasons, though it of course makes for a convenient plot conceit now. Before this ships have frequently been seen jumping and exiting a jump close to each other in the series with seemingly no ill effects- though it is possible Boomer's Raptor was much closer to Galactica's hull than has ever been seen before. In the episode [[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]] the tylium ship jumped whilst surrounded by Raptors and Vipers and no ship seemed to suffer damage, although they were knocked back and sent tumbling. It should be made clear that smaller objects are proportionally stronger and that smaller objects should feel much less shear in the wash of another nearby ship jumping. It is also possible the stress of by being caught in the FTL field of another vessel rather than that caused by a vessels own, properly configured FTL drive is more powerful and dangerous.<br />
*Given that ''Galactica'' has jumped hundreds of times whilst damaged before now, it is not explained why no damage has occurred before given it is assumed damage will be guaranteed by an unplanned jump in this episode. In the miniseries ''Galactica'' suffered a nuke hit and yet jumped several times later. Also despite falling through the atmosphere of New Caprica ''Galactica'' was able to execute an FTL jump despite the severe strains on the hull. Fears of FTL stress were not mentioned.<br />
** ''Galactica'' has probably been taking damage over the years from multiple jumps and suffering combat damage. It's just that the extent of the damage has not become apparent until now. <br />
** It is in part because of those actions, the atomic strikes and it jumping and falling though into a planet's gravity well and its atmosphere is why ''Galactic''a is suffering from massive metal fatigue, in addition to normal wear and tear of a 50+ year old ship and the fact that she hasn't had a major or even minor overhaul in years even before the the attack on the Colonies has taken their toll. In addition as discovered by Chief Tyrol the builders of ''Galactica'' "cut corners" with the building specifications of the ship. Ironically, if the ''Galactica'' was able to retire on schedule these issues of "substandard" construction wouldn't had come up. <br />
** Further to the point above about small craft being subject to less 'shear', it stands to reason that the size of the disturbance created by a ship executing a jump might be proportional to the size of the ship itself. A large vessel such as the tylium ship may create a widespread but relatively smooth disturbance, so the nearby Raptors would have been like corks bobbing as a wave passed. Conversely, a small vessel such as a Raptor might create a localised but very sharp distortion that poses more risk of damage to a large ship close to it.<br />
*The age of ''Galactica'''s FTL drive might explain why the ship's hull integrity is taxed so badly by her FTL drive - more modern drives might not cause so much stress, and might explain why other Fleet ships and the rebel basestar can continue to jump despite the damage their hulls have taken.<br />
* ''Galactica'' is in very bad shape from the metal fatigue in the hull. It's so bad that Tyrol says that all the [[Cylon organic resin]] could do is buy a little more time, but not too much from the looks of it, and that the ship might only be capable of a few more FTL jumps, if that. The ship is dying of old age and abuse and there's nothing anyone can do save it completely. The damage Boomer created during her escape has no doubt worsened the ship's condition.<br />
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===The actions of Boomer===<br />
* Adama has still not forgiven Boomer for shooting him.<br />
* Ellen's escape from Cavil seems to have been orchestrated between him and Boomer in order to get Boomer on ''Galactica'' so she could kidnap Hera according to Ellen's speculation to her husband Saul Tigh.<br />
* It would appear that while Cavil was willing to let Ellen go in order to obtain Hera, members of the [[Final Five]] are still of some value to him, as evidenced by Boomer's offer for Tyrol to go with her. <br />
**It is more likely that Boomer genuinely wanted him to come with her because she truly loves him. Bringing him back to John Cavil-if that is where she is headed-would be of no use to him because as Ellen stated he would need all Five of the Finals to recreate Resurrection. In addition to her rekindled love, she has seen-or at least heard about-that it is possible for a Final Five Cylon to mate and have offspring with a "Standard Model" like herself even if Caprica-Six's pregnancy by Saul Tigh failed, so the possibility of a family which she shared with Tyrol in her projection, was open to her.<br />
* Boomer has gone from being a conflicted sleeper agent to being a willing infiltrator and saboteur on ''Galactica''. With her rekindled love for Tyrol, she may be again conflicted.<br />
* The Cylons want Boomer tried for treason, with execution being a possible outcome, because her actions are linked to the permanent deaths of thousands of Cylons when she sided against her model in the [[Cylon Civil War]]. This parallels the Colonial Fleet's own desire to try [[Gaius Baltar]] for siding against humanity and collaborating with the Cylons on New Caprica.<br />
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*It is very possible-but not certain-that the Cylon ability to recognize individual Cylons despite them looking exactly like each other (most of the time, the Sixes seem to have the most variants in hair color and use of makeup, both voluntary actions) relies on actually looking at the individual. In the lavatory where Sharon "Boomer" Valerii severely beats Sharon "Athena" Agathon, Athena initially mistook Boomer as a generic Eight when she saw her in the reflection of a mirror. It was after she stood up, turned around and looked directly at Boomer did Athena recognize her as Boomer. Admittedly however, it is possible that she would had recognized Boomer if she still only watched her in the reflection. Still, she said a full sentence while she looked at her in the mirror-"Great, I hope you are here to fix the frakkin' shower!"-but instantly recognized Boomer the exact moment she saw her directly and not reflected. Perhaps they also need to look the other Cylon square in the eyes, which is what Tyrol does in "[[Deadlock]]" before identifying Boomer.<br />
**Helo did notice that Boomer did smell different. Boomer covered for this saying she found some soap.<br />
***Helo said she smell good not different an she was washing her hands at the time. However there is a relevance to Helo mentioning her smell. In a scene from [[Litmus]] Tyrol and Boomer were in bed together shortly after engaging in intercourse. He said to her: "Sometimes at work I try to conjure up what your face looks like...Curve of your lips.....The way your hair falls. How you smell." Helo as just noted told Boomer she smelled good just before they had sex.<br />
* Boomer has sex with [[Helo]] by pretending to be [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]] after he mistook her for his wife and he insisted after she tried to leave, but then enthusiastically let him believe she was Athena and willingly had sex with him. This is ironic, as Athena originally seduced Helo on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]], by pretending to be Boomer.<br />
** Boomer's willingness to have sex with Agathon - in the presence of Athena - was motivated by a desire to exact revenge on Athena for having effectively taken over her old life on ''Galactica'' according to the show writers.<br />
***Though she initially hesitated, a knowing glance to the corner where Athena was hidden, is the clue to her decision to defile Athena's relationship with Helo.<br />
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===Starbuck's role===<br />
* The mysterious piano player is [[Dreilide Thrace|Kara's father]], which can be concluded by his sudden disappearance and by the flashbacks with both Kara and her father playing the piano when she was little. These flashbacks mirror the exact same movements done by Captain Thrace and the piano player.<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1598</ref><br />
* The title of the tape Kara receives back from Helo is "Dreilide Thrace Live at the Helice Opera House."<br />
** [[w:Helice|Helice]], also spelled Helike, was an ancient Greek city which sank into the Corinthian Gulf in 373 B.C.<br />
** Helice was the ancient Greek name <ref>http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620003/Ursa-Major</ref> for the constellation [[w:Ursa Major|Ursa Major]] (the Great Bear). <i>Helice</i> in Greek means "to spin" or "to turn"; it is the root of the modern word <i>helix</i>. Ursa Major revolves around [[w:Polaris|Polaris]], the Pole Star, hence the name. This may be a reference to the spinning of the [[maelstrom]] Kara flew into before her ship was destroyed, and it could also refer to the [[mandala]] found on the wall of her apartment and the [[Temple of Five]].<br />
** [[w:Helike_(mythology)|Helice/Helike]] was also the name of a nymph in Greek mythology who nursed the infant [[Zeus]], along with another nymph, Melissa (which name itself means "honey" or "honey bee"). <ref>http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Constellations/UrsaMajor.html</ref><br />
** [[w:Helike_(moon)|Helike]] is also a newly-discovered moon of [[w:Jupiter|Jupiter]].<br />
** However, the appearance of the word <i>Helice</i> in the show may simply be a tongue-in-cheek reference to [[Bear McCreary]]'s heavy involvement with this episode -- Ursa Major, and McCreary, both being "The Great Bear."<ref>http://tvbacon.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/battlestar-galactica-someone-to-watch-over-me-live-at-the-helice-opera-house/</ref><br />
* It is possible that Starbuck also has the ability of Projection and she projected the Piano Player beside her when she played a section of "All Along the Watchtower" from the drawing Hera made, which turned out to be musical notation. She, from her POV, was playing a long side of him but when Saul Tigh, Ellen Tigh, and Tory Foster confronted her about where she learned to play that music he was gone. Perhaps it was just standard human daydreaming, or a [[Virtual beings|Virtual being]], but it could had been projection.<br />
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===Tyrol and the other Finals=== <br />
*The Final Five have the same [[Projection|projection]] ability as the Cylons they created. Cylons can share projections.<br />
* Projections can include not just imaginary environments but also imaginary people, such as Boomer and Tyrol's "daughter" Dionne.<br />
* It also appears that projections might be a form of persistent environment -- similar to real-life virtual worlds such as [[w:Second Life|Second Life]], as Tyrol re-enters Boomer's projection after she escapes with Hera, as if expecting to find her and Dionne still in there.<br />
* The Final Five, [[Hera Agathon]], and [[Kara Thrace]] are all somehow connected to each other by [[The Music]]. Also possibly connected via the song is Kara's [[Dreilide Thrace|mysterious father]].<br />
*Both the Agathons and Tyrol suffer the lost of a daughter: Hera and Tyrol's imaginary daughter from his and Boomer's shared projection; both taken by Boomer. Hera actually, Tyrol's symbolically in Tyrol's solo projection. Both Athena and Tyrol suffer great grief and display it: Athena's primal howls and beating her arm against Helo's back in rage/despair; Tyrol's sinking to his knees and burying his head in his arms in his child's empty room in his projection. Helo initially took the situation stoically but in the previews for the next episode [[Islanded In a Stream of Stars]], it appears the emotional toll over the loss of his daughter is telling on Helo when Adama, presumably taking about Hera, says-uncharacteristically-"get over it" to a disheveled Helo.<br />
* Ellen Tigh has the same reaction to hearing The Music as her husband and Tory Foster. She, of course, remembers hearing Sam Anders play the song on Earth.<br />
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===The status of Cylons in the Fleet===<br />
* The Cylons seem to have officially joined the Fleet as they now have the representation they wanted on the new Quorum in the form of a Six named Sonja. It is also confirmed that Cylon and Colonial pilots are performing joint [[CAP]]s.<br />
** This is most clearly seen when Athena staggers into the briefing room and Helo orders one of the Sixes to go get the medics, the Six unhesitatingly responds "Yes, Sir". Several Sixes and Eights are also seen attending Starbuck's "toothpaste briefing." At the toothpaste briefing, Starbuck states that "Six has the color assignments and recognition codes," (not, for instance, "''This'' Six..." or "The Six in the front row..."), and the Six in question casually raises her hand for the pilots behind her to see.<br />
** The rebel Cylon pilots do not appear to have been commissioned into the Colonial military, as they wear Cylon flight suits and none is addressed by rank.<br />
** The Sixes and Eights appear to use their model numbers as surnames, and are referred to and addressed as "Six" or "Eight". They do not yet appear to have been given individual call-signs.<br />
* Despite integrating allied flight command (at least among manned Heavy Raiders), being represented in the Quorum, and subordinating their Basestar weapons control to President Roslin ("[[Blood on the Scales]]"), the Rebel Cylons have retained some sovereignty and are thus entitled to extradite Sharon "Boomer" Valerii and try her for treason under Cylon law.<br />
* Cylon law does not prohibit punishments to be enacted ''ex post facto''. Sonja Six explains that a death penalty provision would have been meaningless prior to the destruction of the hub, yet they intend to execute Boomer if she is found guilty for the treason she is accused of committing prior to the hub's destruction.<br />
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===Miscellaneous===<br />
* It has been unclear whether Karl Agathon is still the [[Commander Air Group]] (CAG) of Galactica or Kara Thrace officially takes over the CAG as Agathon used to join important staff meetings with Adama & Tigh in previous episodes. However, this episode clearly shows that Thrace is now serving as the CAG of Galactica.<br />
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== Questions ==<br />
* Will Boomer take Hera to Cavil? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer]])<br />
* Why does Cavil want Hera? ([[Daybreak, Part I|Answer]])<br />
* What was Boomer writing in her cell when she first sensed Tyrol watching her?<br />
* Why did Boomer sleep with Helo? ([[Someone to Watch Over Me#Official Statements|Answer]])<br />
* What is the source of Starbuck's visions of her father? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Partial Answer]])<br />
* How did Starbuck and Hera arrive at a piano version of the same [[The Music|melody]] originally played by Anders on a guitar on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Partial Answer]])<br />
* Will Tyrol's involvement in Boomer's escape be discovered? How will Athena and Helo react? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Answer]])<br />
* Do all the ships in the Fleet - regardless of their relative crew and passenger size - get to send representatives to the new Quorum?<br />
* What is Roslin's physical status after collapsing at the end of the episode? ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars|Answer]])<br />
* How does Roslin know of Hera's abduction without being informed? ([[Daybreak, Part II|Partial Answer]])<br />
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== Official Statements == <br />
*Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune interviews David Weddle and Bradley Thompson<ref>http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-starbuck-boomer-someone-to-watch-over-me-.html</ref>:<br />
**Boomer had a sick desire to strike out at Athena, based on a perverse envy.<br />
**Boomer's escape with Ellen was staged so that she could kidnap Hera. She intended to just use the Chief, but their interactions did awaken feelings she thought were dead.<br />
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== Noteworthy Dialogue ==<br />
*''Ellen Tigh, Saul Tigh, and Tory Foster are in Joe's bar. Saul is remarking at the state of someone they cared about:''<br />
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:'''Saul''': Cottle was right, I should've never insisted on seeing him. His eyes were open! I wasn't ready for that. The little guy was looking right at me! <br />
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::''Saul was not talking about Anders (in a coma with his eyes open) but the body of his dead son Liam that was delivered stillborn after he died in utero but whose corpse he insisted on seeing.''<br />
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*''Cottle gives a response to the Cylons' observations about Anders' condition''<br />
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:'''Cottle''': The last thing we need is you jerking our chains with a lot of quack ideas. So why don't you take them someplace else?<br />
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== Guest Stars ==<br />
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* [[Kate Vernon]] as [[Ellen Tigh]]<br />
* [[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Dr. [[S. Cottle]]<br />
* [[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]<br />
* [[Roark Critchlow]] as [[Slick]]<br />
* [[Iliana Gomez-Martinez]] as [[Hera Agathon]]<br />
* [[Brad Dryborough]] as Lieutenant [[Louis Hoshi]]<br />
* [[ Torrance Coombs]] as Lance Corporal [[C. Sellers]]<br />
* [[Ivan Cermak]] as Corporal [[D. Wallace]]<br />
* [[Curtis Caravaggio]] as [[Nathanson]]<br />
* [[Cherilynn Fulbright]] as [[Dionne]]<br />
* [[Patrick Gilmore]] as [[Rafferty]]<br />
* [[Samantha Caine]] as Off-duty Crew Person<br />
* [[Erika-Shaye Gair]] as Young [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
* [[Darcy Laurie]] as [[Dealino]]<br />
* [[Sonja Bennett]] as Specialist [[Marcie Brasko]]<br />
* [[David Weddle]] as Smoking man in [[Joe's bar]] (uncredited)<br />
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== References ==<br />
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The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]] television program and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.<br />
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The timeline is given in "Earth" years, BC and AD, not by Colonial [[yahren]].<br />
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==On Kobol==<br />
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The beginning of recorded human history, on the mother world - the planet [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. <ref>At the beginning of "[[Saga of a Star World]]", it is mentioned that the peace conference is being held at the beginning of the 7th millennium of human history, which would mean human history was just crossing into its 6,000th year. 6,000 years prior to "[[Saga of a Star World]]", which is noted later in this timeline as happening in 1950, would be circa 4,000 BC.</ref><br />
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==The Exodus==<br />
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The original 13 tribes leave Kobol and head out into space. Twelve of the tribes settle near each other in the area known as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]]. The remaining [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]] heads to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].<br />
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==Exodus through 20th Century==<br />
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69 BC - 30 BC<br />
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:Life of [[w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra VII of Egypt]].<ref>A partially filmed, but never aired episode of ''Galactica 1980'', entitled "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" was partially set in 30 BCE. The announcement of the cancellation of the series by ABC came during the filming, and the episode was never completed. This episode would have brought back the time travel plot device used in the first episode. Additionally, Egyptian themes were used frequently in ''Battlestar Galactica'', such as the city of [[Eden]] in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
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c. 950 AD<br />
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:The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies, who intervene to assist their neighbor. As a result of this intervention, the [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire. <ref>The [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins 1,000 years before "[[Saga of a Star World]]" which, as noted later in this timeline, is set around 1950.</ref><br />
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c. 1450 AD<br />
<br />
:Approximate time that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[Celestial chamber|celestial chambers]] on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings. <ref>A 500 year old celestial chamber is depicted in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref><br />
<br />
1776 AD<br />
<br />
:[[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:American Revolution|Revolutionary America]] and tries to change history. [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], [[Dillon]] and [[Jamie Hamilton]] follow him, and thwart his plans, but he apparently escapes to another time frame. <ref>The trip to 1776 is referred to at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" but not shown on screen. Xavier's plans are mentioned at the start of "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
prior to 1850<br />
<br />
:[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born. <ref>Adama reveals he is over a hundred yahrens old in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1900-1949==<br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1917}}: [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica. His father is [[Chameleon]].<ref>Based on the age of [[Dirk Benedict]] during the filming of the Original Series. Starbuck is revealed to be from Caprica, as well as Chameleon being his father in "[[The Man With Nine Lives]]".</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1918}}<br />
** '''November 11''': Earth's [[w:World War I|World War I]] officially ends.<ref>Jamie Hamilton makes a ''slight'' error when she tells the Galacticans that "20 years later, in 1939, World War II broke out" in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". However, she was reciting this from memory, so it's an understandable error.</ref> <br />
* {{inlineref|1939}}<br />
** '''September 1''': Earth's World War II begins.<ref>As confirmed by [[Jamie Hamilton]] in her conversation to the Galacticans in [[Zee's chamber]] ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1943}}: [[Troy (1980)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] on Caprica.<ref>This calculation is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age during the filming of the Original Series. This would make Boxey seven years old in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and 37 years of age in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" -- which happened to be the age of [[Kent McCord]] when he played the role.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1944}}: [[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and poses as a British scientist and Nazi sympathizer. He volunteers to work with the [[w:V-2 rocket|V-2 rocket program]] and introduces Colonial technology, in hopes of changing history by ensuring a Nazi victory in [[w:World War Two|World War Two]].<ref>Described in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 4''': Troy, Dillon and Hamilton's time destination.<ref name="gde2">Depicted in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 5-6''': Hamilton, Troy and Dillon arrive in Nazi Germany a day before the [[w:D-Day|D-Day]] invasion. With the help of a [[Stockwell|U.S. agent]], they locate Xavier and force him to return to 1980.<ref name="gde2"/><br />
* {{inlineref|1947}}: The United States Air Force begins [[w:Project Blue Book|Project Blue Book]], a 22 year long investigation into unidentified flying objects.<ref>Project Blue Book is mentioned in a disclaimer at the end of every ''Galactica 1980'' episode. [[Colonel Sydell]]'s new organization within the US Air Force in the series has a similar mandate, and the disclaimer was apparently put in place to assure viewers that Sydell's organization was fictitious, and not to be confused with the real project that had concluded years before.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1948}}: The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. [[Commander Cain]], realizing that the Cylons were doubtless lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space towards the [[Krillian Star System]] and [[Gamoray]].<ref>Two yahrens prior to the events of "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1950==<br />
<br />
The destruction of the Colonies, thirty years before ''Galactica'' discovers Earth.<ref>Officially, ''Galactica 1980'' was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This piece of information is never specifically mentioned on screen, but was mentioned in promotional advertising and noted in background material for the program.</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/galactica-1980/show/1252/summary.html</ref><br />
<br />
The episodes and events of the Original Series are set during this period.<br />
<br />
==1951 - 1979==<br />
<br />
: ''The period between ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'' and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.''<br />
<br />
The Cylons, over this 30 year period, develop completely new technologies and evolve considerably - "beyond the wildest fears" of the Colonials, according to Dr. Zee. These new technologies include improved Cylon Raiders and the creation of humanoid Cylons.<ref>The increased technological prowess of the Cylons is described in "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
Also, during this period, the Imperious Leader is apparently replaced, as his voice is considerably different by 1980.<ref>When the Imperious Leader is shown in "[[Space Croppers]]", he is no longer voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]], but instead by [[Dennis Haysbert]].</ref><br />
<br />
Sometime prior to 1970, [[Captain Apollo]] dies.<ref>Troy refers to Apollo's death in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". This apparently happens before the events depicted in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" as Starbuck does not mention Apollo when relating to Boomer people he wishes to say goodbye to. In addition, Apollo's death is apparently a mystery to the Fleet, or so the script for the unfilmed episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" indicates.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1951}}: [[Dillon]] is born in space aboard a vessel in the Colonial Fleet. <ref>Based on the age of [[Barry Van Dyke]] at the time of filming.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1953}}: [[Jamie Hamilton]] is born in the United States on Earth. <ref>Based on the age of actress [[Robyn Douglass]] at the time of filming, who portrayed Jamie Hamilton. She identifies herself as an American in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1960}}: The last attack by the Cylons on the Colonial fleet until 1980. <ref>There has not been a Cylon attack in almost a generation prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]". A generation is typically denoted as 20 years.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1970}}: [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] is stranded on a [[Planet Starbuck|desolate planetoid]], where he rebuilds the Centurion named [[Cyrus]] (nicknamed "Cy" by Starbuck). Some time later at this same location, Dr. [[Zee]] is born to the mysterious woman, [[Angela]]. <ref>Events of the flashback sequence of "[[The Return of Starbuck]]". Dr. Zee is a pre-teen child, who appears to be roughly ten years of age. Reasoning backward, he was born c. 1970.</ref><br />
<br />
:After 1970<br />
<br />
::Dr. Zee's ship catches up to the Fleet. <ref>The voyage of Dr. Zee's ship is shown in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]"</ref>.<br />
<br />
::Lt. Boomer is promoted to Colonel.<ref>By the time of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" Boomer has assumed this rank, while he still held this rank in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Commander Adama grows a beard.<ref>Adama has a large Moses like beard throughout ''1980'', but did not have it in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Boxey begins to go by the name "Troy" as he grows older.<ref>Troy mentions this in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]", although Adama still refers to him as Boxey in a private conversation before being shown the [[invisibility field]].</ref><br />
<br />
:1977<br />
<br />
::Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]] begins work on his nuclear degeneration formula.<ref>According to [[Dorothy Carlyle]], Dr. Mortinson had been working on nuclear degeneration for three years as of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1980==<br />
<br />
''Galactica's'' long range probes arrive in the Solar System. They positively identify the third planet as Earth. ''Galactica'' and the Colonial Fleet reach Earth. <ref>"[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" through "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|Part III]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy, Dillon and Jamie head back in time to World War II and then to the American Revolution to find [[Xavier]]. <ref>Troy, Dillon and Jamie are about to head off on this mission at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]"</ref> The team is apparently successful in stopping Xavier, as there are no apparent changes to Earth's history.<ref>No reference to Xavier having achieved his goals is made in the subsequent episodes.</ref> Xavier escapes being brought into custody, however, and remains in Earth's past. While there, he perfects a process of cellular transformation which can allow him to assume the appearance of others. <ref>Xavier's activities are related in "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Jamie returns to Earth, and back to the job she was offered with the United Broadcasting Corporation. <ref>As of "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", Jamie is back at work at UBC.</ref><br />
<br />
:In light of the unknown aircraft violating U.S. airspace, which are in reality Colonial Vipers, the United States Air Force dedicates new funds to the tracking of U.F.O.s.<br />
<br />
:Dr. Zee leads a project to build a new saucer-shaped fighter craft, designed to thwart the Cylons.<ref>The saucer project is revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]" and shown again in "[[Space Croppers]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:The Cylons determine to test some of their new technologies on the Colonial refugees. They plan to first attack the freighter ''Delphi'', a straggling vessel in the Colonial Fleet, which happens to function as the Fleet' school.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Super Scouts, Part II|Part II]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy and Dillon spend a few days away from the children on an unknown mission.<ref>Briefly mentioned in "[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Having spent an inordinate amount of money investigating the Super Scouts, Colonel Sydell's budget is questioned by his superiors in the United States Air Force.<ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:Xavier returns to the present time from Earth's past, and assumes the form of Lt. Nash of ''Galactica''. <ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[Spaceball]]."<br />
<br />
:Xavier remains at large on Earth, without a Viper, stranded in the present and on the ground.<br />
<br />
:In another test of their new technologies, the Cylons send out new, advanced fighters, manned by Centurions and humanoid Cylons, to search for the elusive Colonial fleet.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:October 31 - November 1, 1980<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]" <ref>"The Night the Cylons Landed" is specifically noted to occur on Halloween.</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]"<ref>Episode ends in the early hours of November 1.</ref><br />
<br />
:Late 1980<br />
<br />
::The [[Imperious Leader]] and his three base ships, catch up to ''Galactica'' and the Fleet, but the location of Earth remains elusive. <ref>Just prior to "[[Space Croppers]]"</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980 episode'' "[[Space Croppers]]".<br />
<br />
::''Galactica'' maintains its first colony on Earth, and the Super Scouts remain there, relocating from the baseball camp where they had been staying.<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".<br />
<br />
::The scripted but only partially shot episode "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" would have taken place here.<br />
<br />
==1981==<br />
<br />
:The planned but never filmed Starbuck episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" would have taken place at this time.<br />
<br />
==1990==<br />
<br />
In Dr. Zee's projection of what could have happened in the future, environmental damage and population expansion has rendered Paradise Valley polluted and crowded. If Dr. Zee's warning was in fact heeded by the people of Paradise Valley, however, these events may not have come to pass.<ref>Possible future revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<br />
The central year of this timeline is 1980, the year when the series is set. In promotional material and subsequent interviews, it has been noted that Galactica 1980 was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This was done in large part to explain the cast changes, and is chiefly supported on screen by the aging of [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], who was a child in the first series. <br />
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The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]] television program and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.<br />
<br />
The timeline is given in "Earth" years, BC and AD, not by Colonial [[yahren]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==On Kobol==<br />
<br />
The beginning of recorded human history, on the mother world - the planet [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. <ref>At the beginning of "[[Saga of a Star World]]", it is mentioned that the peace conference is being held at the beginning of the 7th millennium of human history, which would mean human history was just crossing into its 6,000th year. 6,000 years prior to "[[Saga of a Star World]]", which is noted later in this timeline as happening in 1950, would be circa 4,000 BC.</ref><br />
<br />
==The Exodus==<br />
<br />
The original 13 tribes leave Kobol and head out into space. Twelve of the tribes settle near each other in the area known as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]]. The remaining [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]] heads to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].<br />
<br />
==Exodus through 20th Century==<br />
<br />
69 BC - 30 BC<br />
<br />
:Life of [[w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra VII of Egypt]].<ref>A partially filmed, but never aired episode of ''Galactica 1980'', entitled "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" was partially set in 30 BCE. The announcement of the cancellation of the series by ABC came during the filming, and the episode was never completed. This episode would have brought back the time travel plot device used in the first episode. Additionally, Egyptian themes were used frequently in ''Battlestar Galactica'', such as the city of [[Eden]] in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
<br />
c. 950 AD<br />
<br />
:The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies, who intervene to assist their neighbor. As a result of this intervention, the [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire. <ref>The [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins 1,000 years before "[[Saga of a Star World]]" which, as noted later in this timeline, is set around 1950.</ref><br />
<br />
c. 1450 AD<br />
<br />
:Approximate time that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[Celestial chamber|celestial chambers]] on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings. <ref>A 500 year old celestial chamber is depicted in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref><br />
<br />
1776 AD<br />
<br />
:[[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:American Revolution|Revolutionary America]] and tries to change history. [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], [[Dillon]] and [[Jamie Hamilton]] follow him, and thwart his plans, but he apparently escapes to another time frame. <ref>The trip to 1776 is referred to at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" but not shown on screen. Xavier's plans are mentioned at the start of "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
prior to 1850<br />
<br />
:[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born. <ref>Adama reveals he is over a hundred yahrens old in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1900-1949==<br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1917}}: [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica. His father is [[Chameleon]].<ref>Based on the age of [[Dirk Benedict]] during the filming of the Original Series. Starbuck is revealed to be from Caprica, as well as Chameleon being his father in "[[The Man With Nine Lives]]".</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1918}}<br />
** '''November 11''': Earth's [[w:World War I|World War I]] officially ends.<ref>Jamie Hamilton makes a ''slight'' error when she tells the Galacticans that "20 years later, in 1939, World War II broke out" in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". However, she was reciting this from memory, so it's an understandable error.</ref> <br />
* {{inlineref|1939}}<br />
** '''September 1''': Earth's World War II begins.<ref>As confirmed by [[Jamie Hamilton]] in her conversation to the Galacticans in [[Zee's chamber]] ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1943}}: [[Troy (1980)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] on Caprica.<ref>This calculation is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age during the filming of the Original Series. This would make Boxey seven years old in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and 37 years of age in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" -- which happened to be the age of [[Kent McCord]] when he played the role.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1944}}: [[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and poses as a British scientist and Nazi sympathizer. He volunteers to work with the [[w:V-2 rocket|V-2 rocket program]] and introduces Colonial technology, in hopes of changing history by ensuring a Nazi victory in [[w:World War Two|World War Two]].<ref>Described in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 4''': Troy, Dillon and Hamilton's time destination.<ref name="gde2">Depicted in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 5-6''': Hamilton, Troy and Dillon arrive in Nazi Germany a day before the [[w:D-Day|D-Day]] invasion. With the help of a [[Stockwell|U.S. agent]], they locate Xavier and force him to return to 1980.<ref name="gde2"/><br />
* {{inlineref|1947}}: The United States Air Force begins [[w:Project Blue Book|Project Blue Book]], a 22 year long investigation into unidentified flying objects.<ref>Project Blue Book is mentioned in a disclaimer at the end of every ''Galactica 1980'' episode. [[Colonel Sydell]]'s new organization within the US Air Force in the series has a similar mandate, and the disclaimer was apparently put in place to assure viewers that Sydell's organization was fictitious, and not to be confused with the real project that had concluded years before.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1948}}: The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. [[Commander Cain]], realizing that the Cylons were doubtless lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space towards the [[Krillian Star System]] and [[Gamoray]].<ref>Two yahrens prior to the events of "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1950==<br />
<br />
The destruction of the Colonies, thirty years before ''Galactica'' discovers Earth.<ref>Officially, ''Galactica 1980'' was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This piece of information is never specifically mentioned on screen, but was mentioned in promotional advertising and noted in background material for the program.</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/galactica-1980/show/1252/summary.html</ref><br />
<br />
The episodes and events of the Original Series are set during this period.<br />
<br />
==1951 - 1979==<br />
<br />
: ''The period between ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'' and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.''<br />
<br />
The Cylons, over this 30 year period, develop completely new technologies and evolve considerably - "beyond the wildest fears" of the Colonials, according to Dr. Zee. These new technologies include improved Cylon Raiders and the creation of humanoid Cylons.<ref>The increased technological prowess of the Cylons is described in "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
Also, during this period, the Imperious Leader is apparently replaced, as his voice is considerably different by 1980.<ref>When the Imperious Leader is shown in "[[Space Croppers]]", he is no longer voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]], but instead by [[Dennis Haysbert]].</ref><br />
<br />
Sometime prior to 1970, [[Captain Apollo]] dies.<ref>Troy refers to Apollo's death in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". This apparently happens before the events depicted in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" as Starbuck does not mention Apollo when relating to Boomer people he wishes to say goodbye to. In addition, Apollo's death is apparently a mystery to the Fleet, or so the script for the unfilmed episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" indicates.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1951}}: [[Dillon]] is born in space aboard a vessel in the Colonial Fleet. <ref>Based on the age of [[Barry Van Dyke]] at the time of filming.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1953}}: [[Jamie Hamilton]] is born in the United States on Earth. <ref>Based on the age of actress [[Robyn Douglass]] at the time of filming, who portrayed Jamie Hamilton. She identifies herself as an American in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1960}}: The last attack by the Cylons on the Colonial fleet until 1980. <ref>There has not been a Cylon attack in almost a generation prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]". A generation is typically denoted as 20 years.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1970}}: [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] is stranded on a [[Planet Starbuck|desolate planetoid]], where he rebuilds the Centurion named [[Cyrus]] (nicknamed "Cy" by Starbuck). Some time later at this same location, Dr. [[Zee]] is born to the mysterious woman, [[Angela]]. <ref>Events of the flashback sequence of "[[The Return of Starbuck]]". Dr. Zee is a pre-teen child, who appears to be roughly ten years of age. Reasoning backward, he was born c. 1970.</ref><br />
<br />
:After 1970<br />
<br />
::Dr. Zee's ship catches up to the Fleet. <ref>The voyage of Dr. Zee's ship is shown in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]"</ref>.<br />
<br />
::Lt. Boomer is promoted to Colonel.<ref>By the time of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" Boomer has assumed this rank, while he still held this rank in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Commander Adama grows a beard.<ref>Adama has a large Moses like beard throughout ''1980'', but did not have it in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Boxey begins to go by the name "Troy" as he grows older.<ref>Troy mentions this in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]", although Adama still refers to him as Boxey in a private conversation before being shown the [[invisibility field]].</ref><br />
<br />
:1977<br />
<br />
::Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]] begins work on his nuclear degeneration formula.<ref>According to [[Dorothy Carlyle]], Dr. Mortinson had been working on nuclear degeneration for three years as of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1980==<br />
<br />
''Galactica's'' long range probes arrive in the Solar System. They positively identify the third planet as Earth. ''Galactica'' and the Colonial Fleet reach Earth. <ref>"[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" through "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|Part III]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy, Dillon and Jamie head back in time to [[World War II]] to find [[Xavier]]. <ref>Troy, Dillon and Jamie are about to head off on this mission at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]"</ref> The team is apparently successful in stopping Xavier, as there are no apparent changes to Earth's history.<ref>No reference to Xavier having achieved his goals is made in the subsequent episodes.</ref> Xavier escapes being brought into custody, however, and remains in Earth's past. While there, he perfects a process of cellular transformation which can allow him to assume the appearance of others. <ref>Xavier's activities are related in "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Jamie returns to Earth, and back to the job she was offered with the United Broadcasting Corporation. <ref>As of "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", Jamie is back at work at UBC.</ref><br />
<br />
:In light of the unknown aircraft violating U.S. airspace, which are in reality Colonial Vipers, the United States Air Force dedicates new funds to the tracking of U.F.O.s.<br />
<br />
:Dr. Zee leads a project to build a new saucer-shaped fighter craft, designed to thwart the Cylons.<ref>The saucer project is revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]" and shown again in "[[Space Croppers]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:The Cylons determine to test some of their new technologies on the Colonial refugees. They plan to first attack the freighter ''Delphi'', a straggling vessel in the Colonial Fleet, which happens to function as the Fleet' school.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Super Scouts, Part II|Part II]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy and Dillon spend a few days away from the children on an unknown mission.<ref>Briefly mentioned in "[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Having spent an inordinate amount of money investigating the Super Scouts, Colonel Sydell's budget is questioned by his superiors in the United States Air Force.<ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:Xavier returns to the present time from Earth's past, and assumes the form of Lt. Nash of ''Galactica''. <ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[Spaceball]]."<br />
<br />
:Xavier remains at large on Earth, without a Viper, stranded in the present and on the ground.<br />
<br />
:In another test of their new technologies, the Cylons send out new, advanced fighters, manned by Centurions and humanoid Cylons, to search for the elusive Colonial fleet.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:October 31 - November 1, 1980<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]" <ref>"The Night the Cylons Landed" is specifically noted to occur on Halloween.</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]"<ref>Episode ends in the early hours of November 1.</ref><br />
<br />
:Late 1980<br />
<br />
::The [[Imperious Leader]] and his three base ships, catch up to ''Galactica'' and the Fleet, but the location of Earth remains elusive. <ref>Just prior to "[[Space Croppers]]"</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980 episode'' "[[Space Croppers]]".<br />
<br />
::''Galactica'' maintains its first colony on Earth, and the Super Scouts remain there, relocating from the baseball camp where they had been staying.<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".<br />
<br />
::The scripted but only partially shot episode "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" would have taken place here.<br />
<br />
==1981==<br />
<br />
:The planned but never filmed Starbuck episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" would have taken place at this time.<br />
<br />
==1990==<br />
<br />
In Dr. Zee's projection of what could have happened in the future, environmental damage and population expansion has rendered Paradise Valley polluted and crowded. If Dr. Zee's warning was in fact heeded by the people of Paradise Valley, however, these events may not have come to pass.<ref>Possible future revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<br />
The central year of this timeline is 1980, the year when the series is set. In promotional material and subsequent interviews, it has been noted that Galactica 1980 was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This was done in large part to explain the cast changes, and is chiefly supported on screen by the aging of [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], who was a child in the first series. <br />
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== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
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[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial History]]<br />
[[Category:1980]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Timeline_(1980)&diff=178330Timeline (1980)2009-04-05T11:00:36Z<p>Str1977: /* 1980 */</p>
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The timeline below chronicles the events depicted in the classic [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Battlestar Galactica]] television program and its [[spin-off]], ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.<br />
<br />
The timeline is given in "Earth" years, BCE and AD, not by Colonial [[yahren]].<br />
<br />
<br />
==On Kobol==<br />
<br />
The beginning of recorded human history, on the mother world - the planet [[Kobol (TOS)|Kobol]]. <ref>At the beginning of "[[Saga of a Star World]]", it is mentioned that the peace conference is being held at the beginning of the 7th millennium of human history, which would mean human history was just crossing into its 6,000th year. 6,000 years prior to "[[Saga of a Star World]]", which is noted later in this timeline as happening in 1950, would be circa 4,000 BCE.</ref><br />
<br />
==The Exodus==<br />
<br />
The original 13 tribes leave Kobol and head out into space. Twelve of the tribes settle near each other in the area known as the [[The Twelve Colonies (TOS)|Twelve Colonies of Man]]. The remaining [[Thirteenth Tribe (TOS)|Thirteenth Tribe]] heads to [[Earth (TOS)|Earth]].<br />
<br />
==Exodus through 20th Century==<br />
<br />
69 BCE - 30 BCE<br />
<br />
:Life of [[w:Cleopatra VII of Egypt|Cleopatra VII of Egypt]].<ref>A partially filmed, but never aired episode of ''Galactica 1980'', entitled "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" was partially set in 30 BCE. The announcement of the cancellation of the series by ABC came during the filming, and the episode was never completed. This episode would have brought back the time travel plot device used in the first episode. Additionally, Egyptian themes were used frequently in ''Battlestar Galactica'', such as the city of [[Eden]] in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
<br />
c. AD 950<br />
<br />
:The Cylons attack the [[Hasari]], whose territory neighbors the Colonies, who intervene to assist their neighbor. As a result of this intervention, the [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins between the Colonies and the Cylon Empire. <ref>The [[Thousand Yahren War]] begins 1,000 years before "[[Saga of a Star World]]" which, as noted later in this timeline, is set around 1950.</ref><br />
<br />
c. 1450<br />
<br />
:Approximate time that ''[[Galactica (TOS)|Galactica]]'' is launched. Back then, the [[Celestial chamber|celestial chambers]] on ''Galactica'' were used to confirm navigational headings. <ref>A 500 year old celestial chamber is depicted in "[[The Hand of God (TOS)|The Hand of God]]".</ref><br />
<br />
1776<br />
<br />
:[[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:American Revolution|Revolutionary America]] and tries to change history. [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], [[Dillon]] and [[Jamie Hamilton]] follow him, and thwart his plans, but he apparently escapes to another time frame. <ref>The trip to 1776 is referred to at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]" but not shown on screen. Xavier's plans are mentioned at the start of "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
prior to 1850<br />
<br />
:[[Adama (TOS)|Adama]] is born. <ref>Adama reveals he is over a hundred yahrens old in "[[Lost Planet of the Gods]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1900-1949==<br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1917}}: [[Starbuck (TOS)|Starbuck]] is born on Caprica. His father is [[Chameleon]].<ref>Based on the age of [[Dirk Benedict]] during the filming of the Original Series. Starbuck is revealed to be from Caprica, as well as Chameleon being his father in "[[The Man With Nine Lives]]".</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1918}}<br />
** '''November 11''': Earth's [[w:World War I|World War I]] officially ends.<ref>Jamie Hamilton makes a ''slight'' error when she tells the Galacticans that "20 years later, in 1939, World War II broke out" in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". However, she was reciting this from memory, so it's an understandable error.</ref> <br />
* {{inlineref|1939}}<br />
** '''September 1''': Earth's World War II begins.<ref>As confirmed by [[Jamie Hamilton]] in her conversation to the Galacticans in [[Zee's chamber]] ([[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]).</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1943}}: [[Troy (1980)|Boxey]] is born to [[Serina]] on Caprica.<ref>This calculation is based on [[Noah Hathaway]]'s age during the filming of the Original Series. This would make Boxey seven years old in "[[Saga of a Star World]]" and 37 years of age in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" -- which happened to be the age of [[Kent McCord]] when he played the role.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1944}}: [[Xavier]] arrives in [[w:Nazi Germany|Nazi Germany]] and poses as a British scientist and Nazi sympathizer. He volunteers to work with the [[w:V-2 rocket|V-2 rocket program]] and introduces Colonial technology, in hopes of changing history by ensuring a Nazi victory in [[w:World War Two|World War Two]].<ref>Described in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 4''': Troy, Dillon and Hamilton's time destination.<ref name="gde2">Depicted in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part II]]" and "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
**'''June 5-6''': Hamilton, Troy and Dillon arrive in Nazi Germany a day before the [[w:D-Day|D-Day]] invasion. With the help of a [[Stockwell|U.S. agent]], they locate Xavier and force him to return to 1980.<ref name="gde2"/><br />
* {{inlineref|1947}}: The United States Air Force begins [[w:Project Blue Book|Project Blue Book]], a 22 year long investigation into unidentified flying objects.<ref>Project Blue Book is mentioned in a disclaimer at the end of every ''Galactica 1980'' episode. [[Colonel Sydell]]'s new organization within the US Air Force in the series has a similar mandate, and the disclaimer was apparently put in place to assure viewers that Sydell's organization was fictitious, and not to be confused with the real project that had concluded years before.</ref><br />
* {{inlineref|1948}}: The [[Fifth Fleet]] engages the Cylons at the [[Battle of Molecay]]. ''[[Pegasus (TOS)|Pegasus]]'' is the only Colonial vessel to survive. [[Commander Cain]], realizing that the Cylons were doubtless lying in wait along the entire route back to the Colonies, orders ''Pegasus'' out into deep space towards the [[Krillian Star System]] and [[Gamoray]].<ref>Two yahrens prior to the events of "[[The Living Legend, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1950==<br />
<br />
The destruction of the Colonies, thirty years before ''Galactica'' discovers Earth.<ref>Officially, ''Galactica 1980'' was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This piece of information is never specifically mentioned on screen, but was mentioned in promotional advertising and noted in background material for the program.</ref><ref>http://www.tv.com/galactica-1980/show/1252/summary.html</ref><br />
<br />
The episodes and events of the Original Series are set during this period.<br />
<br />
==1951 - 1979==<br />
<br />
: ''The period between ''[[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)]]'' and ''[[Galactica 1980]]''.''<br />
<br />
The Cylons, over this 30 year period, develop completely new technologies and evolve considerably - "beyond the wildest fears" of the Colonials, according to Dr. Zee. These new technologies include improved Cylon Raiders and the creation of humanoid Cylons.<ref>The increased technological prowess of the Cylons is described in "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
Also, during this period, the Imperious Leader is apparently replaced, as his voice is considerably different by 1980.<ref>When the Imperious Leader is shown in "[[Space Croppers]]", he is no longer voiced by [[Patrick Macnee]], but instead by [[Dennis Haysbert]].</ref><br />
<br />
Sometime prior to 1970, [[Captain Apollo]] dies.<ref>Troy refers to Apollo's death in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]". This apparently happens before the events depicted in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]" as Starbuck does not mention Apollo when relating to Boomer people he wishes to say goodbye to. In addition, Apollo's death is apparently a mystery to the Fleet, or so the script for the unfilmed episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" indicates.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1951}}: [[Dillon]] is born in space aboard a vessel in the Colonial Fleet. <ref>Based on the age of [[Barry Van Dyke]] at the time of filming.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1953}}: [[Jamie Hamilton]] is born in the United States on Earth. <ref>Based on the age of actress [[Robyn Douglass]] at the time of filming, who portrayed Jamie Hamilton. She identifies herself as an American in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]".</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1960}}: The last attack by the Cylons on the Colonial fleet until 1980. <ref>There has not been a Cylon attack in almost a generation prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]". A generation is typically denoted as 20 years.</ref><br />
<br />
* {{inlineref|1970}}: [[Starbuck (1980)|Starbuck]] is stranded on a [[Planet Starbuck|desolate planetoid]], where he rebuilds the Centurion named [[Cyrus]] (nicknamed "Cy" by Starbuck). Some time later at this same location, Dr. [[Zee]] is born to the mysterious woman, [[Angela]]. <ref>Events of the flashback sequence of "[[The Return of Starbuck]]". Dr. Zee is a pre-teen child, who appears to be roughly ten years of age. Reasoning backward, he was born c. 1970.</ref><br />
<br />
:After 1970<br />
<br />
::Dr. Zee's ship catches up to the Fleet. <ref>The voyage of Dr. Zee's ship is shown in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]"</ref>.<br />
<br />
::Lt. Boomer is promoted to Colonel.<ref>By the time of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" Boomer has assumed this rank, while he still held this rank in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Commander Adama grows a beard.<ref>Adama has a large Moses like beard throughout ''1980'', but did not have it in the flashback scenes in "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".</ref><br />
<br />
::Boxey begins to go by the name "Troy" as he grows older.<ref>Troy mentions this in "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]", although Adama still refers to him as Boxey in a private conversation before being shown the [[invisibility field]].</ref><br />
<br />
:1977<br />
<br />
::Dr. [[Donald Mortinson]] begins work on his nuclear degeneration formula.<ref>According to [[Dorothy Carlyle]], Dr. Mortinson had been working on nuclear degeneration for three years as of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==1980==<br />
<br />
''Galactica's'' long range probes arrive in the Solar System. They positively identify the third planet as Earth. ''Galactica'' and the Colonial Fleet reach Earth. <ref>"[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]".</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part I]]" through "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III|Part III]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy, Dillon and Jamie head back in time to [[World War II]] to find [[Xavier]]. <ref>Troy, Dillon and Jamie are about to head off on this mission at the end of "[[Galactica Discovers Earth, Part III]]"</ref> The team is apparently successful in stopping Xavier, as there are no apparent changes to Earth's history.<ref>No reference to Xavier having achieved his goals is made in the subsequent episodes.</ref> Xavier escapes being brought into custody, however, and remains in Earth's past. While there, he perfects a process of cellular transformation which can allow him to assume the appearance of others. <ref>Xavier's activities are related in "[[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Jamie returns to Earth, and back to the job she was offered with the United Broadcasting Corporation. <ref>As of "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]", Jamie is back at work at UBC.</ref><br />
<br />
:In light of the unknown aircraft violating U.S. airspace, which are in reality Colonial Vipers, the United States Air Force dedicates new funds to the tracking of U.F.O.s.<br />
<br />
:Dr. Zee leads a project to build a new saucer-shaped fighter craft, designed to thwart the Cylons.<ref>The saucer project is revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]" and shown again in "[[Space Croppers]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:The Cylons determine to test some of their new technologies on the Colonial refugees. They plan to first attack the freighter ''Delphi'', a straggling vessel in the Colonial Fleet, which happens to function as the Fleet' school.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episodes "[[The Super Scouts, Part I]]" and "[[The Super Scouts, Part II|Part II]]"<br />
<br />
:Troy and Dillon spend a few days away from the children on an unknown mission.<ref>Briefly mentioned in "[Spaceball]]".</ref><br />
<br />
:Having spent an inordinate amount of money investigating the Super Scouts, Colonel Sydell's budget is questioned by his superiors in the United States Air Force.<ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:Xavier returns to the present time from Earth's past, and assumes the form of Lt. Nash of ''Galactica''. <ref>Just prior to "[[Spaceball]]"</ref><br />
<br />
''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[Spaceball]]."<br />
<br />
:Xavier remains at large on Earth, without a Viper, stranded in the present and on the ground.<br />
<br />
:In another test of their new technologies, the Cylons send out new, advanced fighters, manned by Centurions and humanoid Cylons, to search for the elusive Colonial fleet.<ref>Just prior to "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]"</ref><br />
<br />
:October 31 - November 1, 1980<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part I]]" <ref>"The Night the Cylons Landed" is specifically noted to occur on Halloween.</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Night the Cylons Landed, Part II]]"<ref>Episode ends in the early hours of November 1.</ref><br />
<br />
:Late 1980<br />
<br />
::The [[Imperious Leader]] and his three base ships, catch up to ''Galactica'' and the Fleet, but the location of Earth remains elusive. <ref>Just prior to "[[Space Croppers]]"</ref><br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980 episode'' "[[Space Croppers]]".<br />
<br />
::''Galactica'' maintains its first colony on Earth, and the Super Scouts remain there, relocating from the baseball camp where they had been staying.<br />
<br />
::''Galactica 1980'' episode "[[The Return of Starbuck]]".<br />
<br />
::The scripted but only partially shot episode "[[The Day They Kidnapped Cleopatra]]" would have taken place here.<br />
<br />
==1981==<br />
<br />
:The planned but never filmed Starbuck episode "[[The Wheel of Fire]]" would have taken place at this time.<br />
<br />
==1990==<br />
<br />
In Dr. Zee's projection of what could have happened in the future, environmental damage and population expansion has rendered Paradise Valley polluted and crowded. If Dr. Zee's warning was in fact heeded by the people of Paradise Valley, however, these events may not have come to pass.<ref>Possible future revealed in "[[The Super Scouts, Part II]]".</ref><br />
<br />
==Notes==<br />
<br />
The central year of this timeline is 1980, the year when the series is set. In promotional material and subsequent interviews, it has been noted that Galactica 1980 was set 30 years after the events of the Original Series. This was done in large part to explain the cast changes, and is chiefly supported on screen by the aging of [[Troy (1980)|Troy]], who was a child in the first series. <br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<div style="font-size:85%"><references/></div><br />
<br />
[[Category:A to Z]]<br />
[[Category:Behind the Scenes]]<br />
[[Category:Colonial History]]<br />
[[Category:1980]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Ellen_Tigh&diff=178329Ellen Tigh2009-04-05T10:56:17Z<p>Str1977: if Saul has 3 lives, Ellen has 4</p>
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<div>{{Character Data| <br />
|photo=Ellen_Tigh_drink.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony=[[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]])<ref>As shown on her visitor's pass on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign=<br />
|seen= Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Poisoned by Saul Tigh on [[New Caprica]], 2 ACH (resurrected on a [[Basestar]], memories returned)<br>4. died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents=John (father)<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=None, Claims the [[Humanoid Cylons|eight Humanoid Cylon lines]] as her collective ''de facto'' children<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Saul Tigh]] in all four lives<br />
|role=Civilian,<br>Military dependant,<br>Creator of Humanoid Cylons<br />
|rank=<br />
|actor=[[Kate Vernon]]<br />
|5cylon=Y<br />
|name= <br />
}}<br />
'''Ellen Tigh''' is the wife of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], a genius scientist, and a [[Final Five]] [[Cylon]]. According to [[Sam Anders]], she spearheaded the experiments that allowed Cylons to resurrect. She and the other Final Five Cylons are responsible for creating the humanoid Cylons that planned and carried out the [[Cylon Holocaust]].<br />
<br />
According to [[William Adama]], her marriage to Saul Tigh was the reason that he took to drinking. While her husband was away from home, she apparently "went through half the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|(Colonial) fleet]]" in her sexual promiscuity. During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], she [[Precipice|collaborated with the Cylons]] and was killed by her husband, only to download to a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[No Exit]]).<br />
<br />
==Background==<br />
<br />
===2,000 Years Ago===<br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh lived on Earth two millennia ago. Like all terrestrial humanoids of the era, she was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, she was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer", a technology which had originated on Kobol, but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate naturally. Tyrol did a lot to resurrect the technology, but it was Ellen who made the final advance that brought it back online. She was trapped under rubble in the lobby of her apartment building when nuclear war began. Her husband and fellow researcher, Saul, heard her cries and was able to clear only superficial debris from around her before they were both killed by the subsequent blasts. Her dying words to Saul were, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn…again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]]) The organic memory transfer they were researching was the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same their ancestors brought from Kobol. When the nukes struck and she was killed, she and the other members of the Final Five downloaded into new bodies on a ship they'd placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the dangers of doing that, but it took them 2,000 years to get there due to their ship's lack of a [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|jump drive]].<br />
<br />
===Modern===<br />
<br />
Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]]. Ellen and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war and the Final Five would help them build [[humanoid Cylon]]s. They made eight models and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. Ellen was close to Number Seven but when John (Number One, also known as Cavil) got jealous, he wiped out the Number Seven copies permanently, before they could be grown to maturity. Cavil suffocated the Final Five, [[Boxing|boxed]] them temporarily, then eventually unboxed them, blocking their real memories and implanting false ones then putting them into the human population in order to show them the evils of humanity.<br />
<br />
Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], estranged from his wife and realizing her tendencies, finds himself burning a cigar hole in a photo of Ellen, just as [[Action Stations|action station klaxons]] ring throughout the decommissioned [[Galactica (RDM)|battlestar]] as the start of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]].<br />
<br />
With the Colonies destroyed, billions of people are dead and Ellen Tigh is presumed to be one of the many suffering that fate ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
<br />
==Character History at a Glance==<br />
<br />
*Commander Adama secretly visits a ship in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], telling none on his command staff of his goal. He returns to ''Galactica'' and a curious Colonel Tigh with an unexpected surprise: a living Ellen Tigh.<br />
*Ellen Tigh claims to have been on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] at the time of the Cylon attack, on her way back home for a reunion with her husband. When the airport was hit in the attack, she claims an anonymous hero - later revealed to be a [[Number One]] - found her unconscious body and got her on to one of the last transports out, where she had been unconscious aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' for some three weeks prior to Adama finding her.<br />
*Following the reunion, Ellen claims she wants to make a fresh start, but no sooner as Saul (still hopelessly in love with her) agrees, Ellen influences him back to drinking heavily and begins flirting openly with other men.<br />
*Her first target is an unwilling [[Lee Adama]] during dinner with Lee, his father and [[Laura Roslin]]. Later she flirts with [[Gaius Baltar]] with greater effect - annoying her husband in the process. <br />
*Ellen Tigh's rescue claims are immediately considered suspect. No one on the ''Rising Star'' can remember treating her through her long weeks of unconsciousness.<br />
*Ellen Tigh takes an unnatural interest in Adama's plans to lead the fleet to Earth, almost badgering him into trying to reveal how long the journey will take. Her actions seem to support Adama's precaution of having Baltar scan Ellen's blood sample to see if she is a Cylon (unbeknownst to her husband). <br />
*Baltar's tests conclude that Ellen Tigh is human, and this quiets Adama's suspicion. But Dr. Baltar self-sabotages his own Cylon detection efforts, fearing that exposing a humanoid Cylon would expose him in his duplicity in the Cylon attack, or to assassination.<br />
*Commander Adama points out, "Cylon or not, (Ellen Tigh is) nothing but trouble." ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])<br />
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[[image:Bsg-ellen-1.jpg|thumb|right|Ellen Tigh at the bar aboard ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' where she meets with [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])]]<br />
*On [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]], Ellen Tigh states her belief that terrorist-turned-politician [[Tom Zarek]] is "the future", and greets him warmly over her husband's objections.<br />
*Later on in the next day, after [[Wallace Gray]]'s poor showing at the Quorum, Ellen Tigh and Zarek talk over a drink, vaguely discussing their own ambitions.<br />
*An associate of Zarek, [[Valance]], is later found dead. Colonel Tigh is among the few who know where the man was held.<br />
*The following evening, at Gaius Baltar's victory celebration, Shortly thereafter, Ellen Tigh dances with her husband and tells him of a "surprise" she has arranged on the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]''. She tells him not only to enjoy some time alone there with her, but to discuss "his future" with some people there. She then embraces her husband and locks eyes with Zarek, seated across the room ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
*After Adama's attempted assassination, Ellen Tigh encourages her husband to take extreme measures to assert his authority, sometimes in contrast to the more reasoned approaches he is proposing.<br />
*Ellen Tigh convinces her husband to let the [[Quorum of Twelve]] witness the delusional Roslin, whom she saw earlier in a poor state. But, thanks to a smuggled [[chamalla]] dose, Roslin shows her resolve and power, which invigorates the Quorum ([[Resistance]]).<br />
*Colonel Tigh begins to relent and considers reconciliation with the captains of other ships in the Fleet, but Ellen goads him into advocating "stern measures." Her pressures lead her husband to drink and take irrational steps, including a standoff on the ''[[Gideon]]'' that leaves four people dead. <br />
*Soon after Lee Adama escapes with President Roslin from the [[brig]], the colonel receives a scolding from his wife in his quarters when the recently awakened Commander Adama arrives. Ellen is asked to leave, her hand gripping the door frame fiercely in frustration of her turn of fortune as she leaves ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
*Ellen Tigh's insistence to her husband for action with the supply boycott returns to terrorize her when Lieutenant [[Joe Palladino]] later attempts to exact revenge on Colonel Tigh for the Gideon incident, tying up Ellen and holding her husband at gunpoint. Colonel Tigh is able to defuse the situation ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
*Ellen Tigh seems to spend much of her time in the Fleet bar-hopping on ships like ''Cloud 9'', where she is held hostage in a terrorist action. ''Galactica'' marines later storm the bar and rescue the group ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
<br />
==New Caprica==<br />
[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Saul handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]<br />
One year after [[New Caprica]] is colonized, Ellen Tigh settles on the planet. Her husband joins her later, after Admiral Adama's insistence. Interestingly, they seem to fully reconcile during this time. Shortly thereafter the Cylon fleet discovers the planet, the Colonial Fleet in orbit jumps away, and the Cylon occupation of New Caprica begins ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). <br />
<br />
Four months after the occupation, Ellen Tigh's husband is imprisoned in the [[New Caprica Detention Center]], resulting in the loss of his right eye. In order to secure his release, Ellen enters into a deal with a [[Cavil]] model. After her sexual encounter with Cavil, her husband is released ([[Occupation]]).<br />
<br />
However, as Ellen Tigh later finds out from this same Cavil, Saul is released in order to further the Cylons' plans to tighten their grip on the civilian population. Despite the release, Ellen reports back to Cavil to further fornicate with him, suggesting some sort of long term sexual agreement. In the aftermath of a session, Cavil demands that she must find out when the next high-level meeting of the resistance is to convene; failure to do so will result in Saul being recaptured and imprisoned again.<br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh steals a map of [[Breeders Canyon]], created by [[Samuel Anders]], which Saul gave to her to destroy in a nearby tent fire ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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The map is later found on a dead humanoid Cylon by Anders' team after he and Fleet liaison [[Sharon Agathon]] eliminate the Centurion attack. Ellen Tigh is soon found and forced into the underground hideout, where Colonel Tigh is told of his wife's deception and confronts his wife ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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The resistance leaders compel Saul Tigh to execute his wife for collaboration with the Cylons. Saul carries out the execution by poisoning Ellen's drink prior to the [[Battle of New Caprica]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Saul's "Virtual Ellen" ==<br />
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When Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] visits [[Caprica Six]] in the [[brig]], to inform her that her request to see [[Hera Agathon]] has been denied, he begins to see Ellen in Six's place. The woman he sees still has the clothes and hair of Number Six, but the face and body of Ellen Tigh. She speaks the same words as Six, but in Ellen's voice.<br />
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Later, Colonel Tigh returns to the cell where Caprica Six is held. Wanting to find out how Cylons deal with pain and guilt, he questions Six to learn that the Cylons have modeled their brains around the human brain and have found a "human" way to shut off pain by accepting it. During this conversation, the "Virtual Ellen" appears and removes Saul's eye patch in an act of tenderness, which Saul rebukes ([[Escape Velocity]]). However, their relationship soon becomes sexual and Tigh, still occasionally seeing Ellen in Caprica's place, impregnates the Cylon ("[[Sine Qua Non]]").<br />
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==Revelation of her true nature==<br />
In a vision on Earth, Saul Tigh sees Ellen trapped underneath a slab of rock fallen after a nuclear blast. He tries to free her, but before they're both killed in another nuclear blast she tells him that they'll be reborn together. Coming out of the vision, Saul Tigh realizes the truth: Ellen is the last of the [[Final Five]].<br />
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==Post-New Caprica Resurrection==<br />
After dying on New Caprica, Ellen awakes in a Cylon [[resurrection tank]] aboard a [[Resurrection Ship]]. Initially frightened, Ellen quickly remembers her entire history, including her time on Earth. She is soon confronted by [[Brother Cavil]], who she calls "John." It is revealed that John was the first humanoid Cylon designed by the Final Five. It soon becomes evident that all of the seven familiar humanoid Cylons were designed by the Final Five, as well as an eighth model, [[Number Seven]], whose line was destroyed by Cavil.<br />
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Ellen is held prisoner on a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] for 18 months, and allowed contact only with Cavil and [[Boomer (RDM)|Boomer]]. After the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], Cavil threatens Ellen with vivisection unless she helps the Cylons rebuild the hub. Ellen refuses, and is soon being readied for surgery, when Boomer helps her to escape ([[No Exit]]). Ellen and Boomer make it back to the Galactica ([[Deadlock]]). She is seen discussing the mission to [[The Colony]] with [[Tory Foster]], and volunteers the Final Five to go, much to Tory's dismay ([[Daybreak, Part 1]]).<br />
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During the battle, she Tory and Tyrol take care of Anders and Ellen stays by his side during everything. She is shocked to learn that Tory murdered Cally, but both she and Tigh forgive Tyrol for killing her in revenge. She and Saul rekindle their relationship and decide to spend the rest of their lives together on humanity's new homeworld which they name Earth.<br />
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==Unanswered Questions==<br />
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*Does Ellen Tigh arrange for [[Valance]]'s death herself, or just provide his location to a third party?<br />
*What favors does Ellen receive in return? What does she intend Saul to discuss on the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', and with whom?<br />
**Does Ellen's choice of a "getaway spot" have anything to do with her mysterious appearance aboard that ship four weeks earlier?<br />
*How surprised is Ellen by Zarek's defeat? Is her association with him still advantageous to her?<br />
*How much, if any, of her original memories did Ellen possess prior to her "death" on New Caprica? Given the revelation that Number One is based upon her father, was she aware of this when she had sex with the Cavil copy on New Caprica?<br />
*Was Ellen the one [[Number Three]] was heard apologizing to during her vision?<br />
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==Cinematic Trivia==<br />
[[Image:Miniseries Ellen.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Jennifer Birchfield-Eick as Ellen Tigh in the [[Miniseries]].]]<br />
In the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]], it is revealed that Ellen Tigh was originally portrayed in picture form only by executive producer [[David Eick]]'s wife, Jennifer. The picture was later replicated for the series with Kate Vernon taking the place of Mrs. Eick and the scene reshot, so Saul Tigh is seen burning a picture of Vernon in the "flashback" sequence at the beginning of "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down."<br />
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==The Macbeth Connection==<br />
Ellen Tigh can be profitably compared with one of Shakespeare's most memorable women. Like Lady Macbeth, Ellen is married to a man who is in the line of command, but who doesn't want the top job. She uses a combination of insult, flattery, and sexual temptation to get her husband in the game, arranges the murder of others, and even makes alcohol one of her most potent weapons (in the play, Lady Macbeth gets the castle guards drunk so that she and her husband can kill the king and princes). In the words of Lady M herself, to her husband, "Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round." <br />
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In fact, of all Shakespeare's plays, ''Macbeth'' is a particularly appropriate one for a series about evil robots who seem human on the outside ("fair is foul and foul is fair"), who are experts at lying and manipulation ("And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us'n deepest consequence"), and who chase our heroes through the gulf of space (at least one scholar has noted that all of the play's most memorable scenes "take place either at night or in some dark spot"). Like Macbeth himself, [[Saul Tigh]] is famous for a bout of vicious hand to hand fighting in the recent war ("For brave Macbeth ... disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel which smok'd with bloody execution ... carv'd out that passage"). <br />
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|photo=Ellen_Tigh_drink.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony=[[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]])<ref>As shown on her visitor's pass on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' in "[[Colonial Day]]".</ref><br />
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|seen= Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. Poisoned by Saul Tigh on [[New Caprica]], 2 ACH (resurrected on a [[Basestar]], memories returned)<br>4. died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents=John (father)<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=None, Claims the [[Humanoid Cylons|eight Humanoid Cylon lines]] as her collective ''de facto'' children<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Saul Tigh]] in all three lives<br />
|role=Civilian,<br>Military dependant,<br>Creator of Humanoid Cylons<br />
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'''Ellen Tigh''' is the wife of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], a genius scientist, and a [[Final Five]] [[Cylon]]. According to [[Sam Anders]], she spearheaded the experiments that allowed Cylons to resurrect. She and the other Final Five Cylons are responsible for creating the humanoid Cylons that planned and carried out the [[Cylon Holocaust]].<br />
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According to [[William Adama]], her marriage to Saul Tigh was the reason that he took to drinking. While her husband was away from home, she apparently "went through half the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|(Colonial) fleet]]" in her sexual promiscuity. During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], she [[Precipice|collaborated with the Cylons]] and was killed by her husband, only to download to a Cylon [[Resurrection Ship]] ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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==Background==<br />
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===2,000 Years Ago===<br />
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Ellen Tigh lived on Earth two millennia ago. Like all terrestrial humanoids of the era, she was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, she was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer", a technology which had originated on Kobol, but fell out of use on Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate naturally. Tyrol did a lot to resurrect the technology, but it was Ellen who made the final advance that brought it back online. She was trapped under rubble in the lobby of her apartment building when nuclear war began. Her husband and fellow researcher, Saul, heard her cries and was able to clear only superficial debris from around her before they were both killed by the subsequent blasts. Her dying words to Saul were, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn…again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]]) The organic memory transfer they were researching was the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same their ancestors brought from Kobol. When the nukes struck and she was killed, she and the other members of the Final Five downloaded into new bodies on a ship they'd placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the dangers of doing that, but it took them 2,000 years to get there due to their ship's lack of a [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|jump drive]].<br />
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===Modern===<br />
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Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Centurions]]. Ellen and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war and the Final Five would help them build [[humanoid Cylon]]s. They made eight models and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. Ellen was close to Number Seven but when John (Number One, also known as Cavil) got jealous, he wiped out the Number Seven copies permanently, before they could be grown to maturity. Cavil suffocated the Final Five, [[Boxing|boxed]] them temporarily, then eventually unboxed them, blocking their real memories and implanting false ones then putting them into the human population in order to show them the evils of humanity.<br />
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Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], estranged from his wife and realizing her tendencies, finds himself burning a cigar hole in a photo of Ellen, just as [[Action Stations|action station klaxons]] ring throughout the decommissioned [[Galactica (RDM)|battlestar]] as the start of the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]].<br />
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With the Colonies destroyed, billions of people are dead and Ellen Tigh is presumed to be one of the many suffering that fate ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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==Character History at a Glance==<br />
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*Commander Adama secretly visits a ship in the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]], telling none on his command staff of his goal. He returns to ''Galactica'' and a curious Colonel Tigh with an unexpected surprise: a living Ellen Tigh.<br />
*Ellen Tigh claims to have been on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] at the time of the Cylon attack, on her way back home for a reunion with her husband. When the airport was hit in the attack, she claims an anonymous hero - later revealed to be a [[Number One]] - found her unconscious body and got her on to one of the last transports out, where she had been unconscious aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' for some three weeks prior to Adama finding her.<br />
*Following the reunion, Ellen claims she wants to make a fresh start, but no sooner as Saul (still hopelessly in love with her) agrees, Ellen influences him back to drinking heavily and begins flirting openly with other men.<br />
*Her first target is an unwilling [[Lee Adama]] during dinner with Lee, his father and [[Laura Roslin]]. Later she flirts with [[Gaius Baltar]] with greater effect - annoying her husband in the process. <br />
*Ellen Tigh's rescue claims are immediately considered suspect. No one on the ''Rising Star'' can remember treating her through her long weeks of unconsciousness.<br />
*Ellen Tigh takes an unnatural interest in Adama's plans to lead the fleet to Earth, almost badgering him into trying to reveal how long the journey will take. Her actions seem to support Adama's precaution of having Baltar scan Ellen's blood sample to see if she is a Cylon (unbeknownst to her husband). <br />
*Baltar's tests conclude that Ellen Tigh is human, and this quiets Adama's suspicion. But Dr. Baltar self-sabotages his own Cylon detection efforts, fearing that exposing a humanoid Cylon would expose him in his duplicity in the Cylon attack, or to assassination.<br />
*Commander Adama points out, "Cylon or not, (Ellen Tigh is) nothing but trouble." ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])<br />
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[[image:Bsg-ellen-1.jpg|thumb|right|Ellen Tigh at the bar aboard ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' where she meets with [[Tom Zarek]] ([[Colonial Day]])]]<br />
*On [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]], Ellen Tigh states her belief that terrorist-turned-politician [[Tom Zarek]] is "the future", and greets him warmly over her husband's objections.<br />
*Later on in the next day, after [[Wallace Gray]]'s poor showing at the Quorum, Ellen Tigh and Zarek talk over a drink, vaguely discussing their own ambitions.<br />
*An associate of Zarek, [[Valance]], is later found dead. Colonel Tigh is among the few who know where the man was held.<br />
*The following evening, at Gaius Baltar's victory celebration, Shortly thereafter, Ellen Tigh dances with her husband and tells him of a "surprise" she has arranged on the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]''. She tells him not only to enjoy some time alone there with her, but to discuss "his future" with some people there. She then embraces her husband and locks eyes with Zarek, seated across the room ([[Colonial Day]]).<br />
*After Adama's attempted assassination, Ellen Tigh encourages her husband to take extreme measures to assert his authority, sometimes in contrast to the more reasoned approaches he is proposing.<br />
*Ellen Tigh convinces her husband to let the [[Quorum of Twelve]] witness the delusional Roslin, whom she saw earlier in a poor state. But, thanks to a smuggled [[chamalla]] dose, Roslin shows her resolve and power, which invigorates the Quorum ([[Resistance]]).<br />
*Colonel Tigh begins to relent and considers reconciliation with the captains of other ships in the Fleet, but Ellen goads him into advocating "stern measures." Her pressures lead her husband to drink and take irrational steps, including a standoff on the ''[[Gideon]]'' that leaves four people dead. <br />
*Soon after Lee Adama escapes with President Roslin from the [[brig]], the colonel receives a scolding from his wife in his quarters when the recently awakened Commander Adama arrives. Ellen is asked to leave, her hand gripping the door frame fiercely in frustration of her turn of fortune as she leaves ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
*Ellen Tigh's insistence to her husband for action with the supply boycott returns to terrorize her when Lieutenant [[Joe Palladino]] later attempts to exact revenge on Colonel Tigh for the Gideon incident, tying up Ellen and holding her husband at gunpoint. Colonel Tigh is able to defuse the situation ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
*Ellen Tigh seems to spend much of her time in the Fleet bar-hopping on ships like ''Cloud 9'', where she is held hostage in a terrorist action. ''Galactica'' marines later storm the bar and rescue the group ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
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==New Caprica==<br />
[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Saul handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]<br />
One year after [[New Caprica]] is colonized, Ellen Tigh settles on the planet. Her husband joins her later, after Admiral Adama's insistence. Interestingly, they seem to fully reconcile during this time. Shortly thereafter the Cylon fleet discovers the planet, the Colonial Fleet in orbit jumps away, and the Cylon occupation of New Caprica begins ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). <br />
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Four months after the occupation, Ellen Tigh's husband is imprisoned in the [[New Caprica Detention Center]], resulting in the loss of his right eye. In order to secure his release, Ellen enters into a deal with a [[Cavil]] model. After her sexual encounter with Cavil, her husband is released ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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However, as Ellen Tigh later finds out from this same Cavil, Saul is released in order to further the Cylons' plans to tighten their grip on the civilian population. Despite the release, Ellen reports back to Cavil to further fornicate with him, suggesting some sort of long term sexual agreement. In the aftermath of a session, Cavil demands that she must find out when the next high-level meeting of the resistance is to convene; failure to do so will result in Saul being recaptured and imprisoned again.<br />
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Ellen Tigh steals a map of [[Breeders Canyon]], created by [[Samuel Anders]], which Saul gave to her to destroy in a nearby tent fire ([[Precipice]]).<br />
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The map is later found on a dead humanoid Cylon by Anders' team after he and Fleet liaison [[Sharon Agathon]] eliminate the Centurion attack. Ellen Tigh is soon found and forced into the underground hideout, where Colonel Tigh is told of his wife's deception and confronts his wife ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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The resistance leaders compel Saul Tigh to execute his wife for collaboration with the Cylons. Saul carries out the execution by poisoning Ellen's drink prior to the [[Battle of New Caprica]] ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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== Saul's "Virtual Ellen" ==<br />
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When Colonel [[Saul Tigh]] visits [[Caprica Six]] in the [[brig]], to inform her that her request to see [[Hera Agathon]] has been denied, he begins to see Ellen in Six's place. The woman he sees still has the clothes and hair of Number Six, but the face and body of Ellen Tigh. She speaks the same words as Six, but in Ellen's voice.<br />
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Later, Colonel Tigh returns to the cell where Caprica Six is held. Wanting to find out how Cylons deal with pain and guilt, he questions Six to learn that the Cylons have modeled their brains around the human brain and have found a "human" way to shut off pain by accepting it. During this conversation, the "Virtual Ellen" appears and removes Saul's eye patch in an act of tenderness, which Saul rebukes ([[Escape Velocity]]). However, their relationship soon becomes sexual and Tigh, still occasionally seeing Ellen in Caprica's place, impregnates the Cylon ("[[Sine Qua Non]]").<br />
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==Revelation of her true nature==<br />
In a vision on Earth, Saul Tigh sees Ellen trapped underneath a slab of rock fallen after a nuclear blast. He tries to free her, but before they're both killed in another nuclear blast she tells him that they'll be reborn together. Coming out of the vision, Saul Tigh realizes the truth: Ellen is the last of the [[Final Five]].<br />
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==Post-New Caprica Resurrection==<br />
After dying on New Caprica, Ellen awakes in a Cylon [[resurrection tank]] aboard a [[Resurrection Ship]]. Initially frightened, Ellen quickly remembers her entire history, including her time on Earth. She is soon confronted by [[Brother Cavil]], who she calls "John." It is revealed that John was the first humanoid Cylon designed by the Final Five. It soon becomes evident that all of the seven familiar humanoid Cylons were designed by the Final Five, as well as an eighth model, [[Number Seven]], whose line was destroyed by Cavil.<br />
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Ellen is held prisoner on a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] for 18 months, and allowed contact only with Cavil and [[Boomer (RDM)|Boomer]]. After the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], Cavil threatens Ellen with vivisection unless she helps the Cylons rebuild the hub. Ellen refuses, and is soon being readied for surgery, when Boomer helps her to escape ([[No Exit]]). Ellen and Boomer make it back to the Galactica ([[Deadlock]]). She is seen discussing the mission to [[The Colony]] with [[Tory Foster]], and volunteers the Final Five to go, much to Tory's dismay ([[Daybreak, Part 1]]).<br />
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During the battle, she Tory and Tyrol take care of Anders and Ellen stays by his side during everything. She is shocked to learn that Tory murdered Cally, but both she and Tigh forgive Tyrol for killing her in revenge. She and Saul rekindle their relationship and decide to spend the rest of their lives together on humanity's new homeworld which they name Earth.<br />
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==Unanswered Questions==<br />
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*Does Ellen Tigh arrange for [[Valance]]'s death herself, or just provide his location to a third party?<br />
*What favors does Ellen receive in return? What does she intend Saul to discuss on the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'', and with whom?<br />
**Does Ellen's choice of a "getaway spot" have anything to do with her mysterious appearance aboard that ship four weeks earlier?<br />
*How surprised is Ellen by Zarek's defeat? Is her association with him still advantageous to her?<br />
*How much, if any, of her original memories did Ellen possess prior to her "death" on New Caprica? Given the revelation that Number One is based upon her father, was she aware of this when she had sex with the Cavil copy on New Caprica?<br />
*Was Ellen the one [[Number Three]] was heard apologizing to during her vision?<br />
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==Cinematic Trivia==<br />
[[Image:Miniseries Ellen.jpg|right|thumb|150px|Jennifer Birchfield-Eick as Ellen Tigh in the [[Miniseries]].]]<br />
In the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]], it is revealed that Ellen Tigh was originally portrayed in picture form only by executive producer [[David Eick]]'s wife, Jennifer. The picture was later replicated for the series with Kate Vernon taking the place of Mrs. Eick and the scene reshot, so Saul Tigh is seen burning a picture of Vernon in the "flashback" sequence at the beginning of "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down."<br />
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==The Macbeth Connection==<br />
Ellen Tigh can be profitably compared with one of Shakespeare's most memorable women. Like Lady Macbeth, Ellen is married to a man who is in the line of command, but who doesn't want the top job. She uses a combination of insult, flattery, and sexual temptation to get her husband in the game, arranges the murder of others, and even makes alcohol one of her most potent weapons (in the play, Lady Macbeth gets the castle guards drunk so that she and her husband can kill the king and princes). In the words of Lady M herself, to her husband, "Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round." <br />
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In fact, of all Shakespeare's plays, ''Macbeth'' is a particularly appropriate one for a series about evil robots who seem human on the outside ("fair is foul and foul is fair"), who are experts at lying and manipulation ("And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us'n deepest consequence"), and who chase our heroes through the gulf of space (at least one scholar has noted that all of the play's most memorable scenes "take place either at night or in some dark spot"). Like Macbeth himself, [[Saul Tigh]] is famous for a bout of vicious hand to hand fighting in the recent war ("For brave Macbeth ... disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel which smok'd with bloody execution ... carv'd out that passage"). <br />
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|photo= Saul Tigh.jpg<br />
|age= Allegedly 71<ref>Tigh was born in 69 BCH, ("[[Valley of Darkness]]" deleted scene), and Season 3 takes place in 2 AHC.</ref>, actually 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Aerelon|Aerelon]])<br />
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|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
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|children= [[Liam|Liam Tigh]]† (miscarried at four months) with Caprica-Six;<br>Some [[Number Eight]] Cylons consider him their father<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Ellen Tigh]] in all three lives;<br>briefly cohabitated with [[Caprica-Six]]<br />
|role= Executive Officer, [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Commander of [[New Caprica Resistance]];<br>Civilian deckhand;<br>Engineer or scientist<br />
|rank= Colonel<br />
|actor= [[Michael Hogan]]<br />
|serial=219804<ref>Serial number from [[:Image:Tigh's dogtag serial.jpg|his dogtags]] and confirmed by the studios for the QMX replica.</ref> <br />
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'''Saul Tigh''' is the [[Executive Officer]] (XO) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'', and repeatedly serves as acting commander in the absence of [[William Adama]]. Before his service on ''Galactica'', he served as Adama's XO on the battlestar ''[[Valkyrie]]''. During the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]], Tigh commanded the [[New Caprica Resistance]]. <br />
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A tough but troubled man with a long history of alcoholism, Tigh has false memories of having served in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] since his teenage years, seeing action in the [[First Cylon War]]. He is married to [[Ellen Tigh]] whose death was incorrectly (though logically) presumed to have been permanent. Believing himself to be a widower, he entered a sexual relationship with [[Caprica-Six]] with whom he sired a miscarried child named [[Liam|Liam Tigh]].<br />
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Upon reaching the [[Ionian nebula]], he and [[Final Five|three others]] [[Crossroads, Part II|became aware]] of their nature as [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylons]]. Since then, he has sporadically regained memories and knowledge of his prior life.<br />
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==Biography ==<br />
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===Cylon past===<br />
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Saul Tigh lived on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|original Earth]] two millennia ago. Like all humanoids on that planet, he was a Cylon: a member of the [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]]. There, he was one of five scientists researching "organic memory transfer", a technology which had originated on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], but fell out of use on original Earth once the Thirteenth Tribe Cylons started to procreate sexually. His wife was the most gifted of the five scientists. When nuclear armageddon came, Saul found himself in the lobby of his apartment building. Hearing a voice crying out, "Saul!" from the floor in front of the tenants' post boxes, he finds his wife trapped under debris he cannot move. He pulls the lighter debris from around her as more bombs detonate. Moments before they die, she tells him, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn... again. Together." ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]], [[No Exit]])<br />
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The organic memory transfer they were researching was the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection technology]], the same their ancestors brought from Kobol. When killed by the explosions, Saul and the other four downloaded into new bodies aboard a ship they had placed in orbit. Knowing that humanity would continue to create artificial life, they made their way the Twelve Colonies to warn them about the the need to treat their creations with kindness to prevent a rebellion and inter-species war. Lacking [[Propulsion in the Re-imagined Series|faster-than-light]] capability, the five travelled at relativistic speeds. From the planetary perspective, their journey took approximately two thousand years.<br />
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Saul and the other four found their fears were justified. Upon their arrival, the first [[Cylon War]] was already in progress between humans and [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]]. Saul and the others made a deal with the Centurions: end the war against the humans and the five would help them build humanoid Cylons. They made eight models and their technology was stored in [[The Colony]]. The favouritism which [[Number One]] perceived Saul's wife, Ellen, displayed toward [[Number Seven]] drove Number One into a jealous rage. In addition to permanently destroying the Number Seven line, he suffocated Saul and the other four Cylons from original Earth (collectively, the "[[Final Five]]"). Blocking their real memories, Number One implanted false ones in their minds and deposited them among the human population in an attempt to show them the evils of humanity.<br />
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=== False Backstory ===<br />
Saul Tigh was supposedly born on the colony of [[Aerelon]]<ref name="aerelon">"Cylon Intelligence Report: Personnel File: Saul Tigh." <u>Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine</u>. Feb./Mar. 2006: 62. - He has [[Crossroads, Part II|recently been revealed]] as a Cylon presumably making this point moot.</ref>.<br />
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Tigh began his military career as a deckhand<ref name="deckhand">''Ibid''. "Saul Tigh entered the fleet as a deckhand but rose through the ranks and was a CPO (Chief Petty Officer) by the time the First Cylon War broke out."</ref>. By the second year of the first [[Cylon War]], he was serving as a gunner's mate onboard the ''[[Brenik]]''. His ship was boarded by the Cylons where he and others fought in hand to hand combat, during the bloodiest time of that war. It was during this battle that he saw his first dead man, [[Duncan Rafferty]], who was violently vivisected by Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). His ship was subsequently destroyed and he survived. He was transferred to another unnamed ship, which succumbed to a similar fate as his original ship. Having borne witness to many a bloody combat, he became emotionally scarred, which had, among other impetuses, led him to alcoholism. <br />
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Tigh eventually achieved the rank of Chief Petty Officer. When Viper pilot numbers began running low in the war, Tigh was selected for Colonial [[officer candidate school]] and was reassigned as a Viper pilot.<ref>{{cite rdm podcast|episode=Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down}}</ref> As a pilot, he demonstrated considerable skill, earning several medals while posted aboard [[Athena (Battlestar)|Battlestar ''Athena'']].<ref name="athena">''Ibid''. "Tigh joined the Colonial officer candidate school and was reassigned as a Viper pilot, something he excelled in, earning a string of medals in his post aboard the battlestar Athena."</ref> After the cessation of hostilities, he was dismissed from service.<br />
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=== Inter-War Years ===<br />
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Tigh eked out an existence as a deckhand aboard a commercial freighter. He clearly experienced signs of post-traumatic stress disorder; he commented that every time he smelled grease or machine oil he would nearly vomit, as this smell reminded him of the "stink" of Centurions ("[[Valley of Darkness]]", [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 2 (RDM)#Noteworthy Dialogue|deleted scene]]). While on board, he drowned himself in alcohol and, after a time, about 20 years after the war, encountered [[William Adama]], who had not seen as much combat experience as Tigh himself. They became fast friends, and remained in touch after Adama was recommissioned into the service. Two years later, Tigh found himself reinstated into the Colonial Fleet at the rank of captain, thanks to his old friend, and now major, Adama.<ref name="adama">''Ibid''. "Adama reenlisted with the service and Tigh spent two years drinking before Adama pulled strings to get him back into service. Tigh was straightening his life out when he met his wife Ellen, whom he courted and married within two months, about 7 years before the [[Miniseries]]. Unfortunately, Ellen did not take well to military life and her repeated infidelities drove Tigh back into the bottle. The two separated shortly before the Cylon attack.</ref> His alcoholism has led many in the crew to view him with contempt ([[Miniseries]], "[[33]]").<br />
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=== Second Cylon War ===<br />
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Following the Cylon attack, Tigh recovered some of his old verve and attempted to give up alcohol. However, this, combined with the initial stress of flight from the Cylons caused him to over-compensate as a martinet, frequently driving the personnel overly-hard, and berating where encouragement would prove the better option ([[33]]). He excused this by his view that the XO is supposed to be the "hard face" of command.<br />
[[image:33-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|right|"If the crew doesn't hate the XO, then he's not doing his job."]]<br />
With his drinking problem relatively under control, Tigh settled back into his role as the ''Galactica'''s Executive Officer, though he still treats personnel inhumanely. Apart from Adama, he seems unable to utter a sentence without cursing or to leave any differing opinion unsneered at.<br />
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During Cylon attacks, Tigh has proved himself to be an good battle manager and tactician. His quick actions sometimes saved the ship and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] from damage or destruction ("[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", "[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]"). <br />
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Tigh is uneasy around President [[Laura Roslin]] ([[Water]]), and resents what he sees as her interfering with Adama's command ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]) - something born out of his deep respect for Adama which even the most heated of disagreements between them ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]) cannot disrupt and his general inability to accept differing viewpoints.<br />
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Tigh personally loathes [[Kara Thrace]], one of ''Galactica'''s pilots. While grudgingly conceding she is a fine pilot, does consider her an an egotistical, insubordinate youngster and even tries to end her active service. TIgh criticizes Adama for havin a soft spot for Thrace, ignoring that his whole existence in the fleet is based on a similar soft spot ([[Miniseries]]). <br />
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Outside of Adama, Tigh has few others he regards as confidants aboard ship; and since the initial Cylon attack, he has withdrawn from interacting with the crew during off-duty hours, making him perhaps more isolated than even Adama - who is at least held in awe and respect by the crew.<br />
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=== Wife's Return ===<br />
[[image:Tigh_Me_Up_Tigh_Me_Down-Saul_Ellen.jpg|thumb|left|'''Tigh''' and his newly returned wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], making a toast: "To starting over" ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).]]<br />
Some three weeks after the Cylon attack on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]], Tigh is stunned to discover his wife, [[Ellen Tigh|Ellen]], has not been killed as he had thought, but was rescued from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]], and carried aboard the ''[[Rising Star (RDM)|Rising Star]]'' as an unconscious "Jane Doe".<br />
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Despite the emotional implications from the destruction of the Colonies and life aboard the ship, Tigh is reluctantly thrust further into politics as his wife plays her schemes. Much to his disdain, his wife attempts to procure photo opportunities with the likes of [[Tom Zarek]] - a person Tigh views with the utmost contempt ([[Colonial Day]]). Additionally, Ellen seems to re-establish Tigh's alcoholism with gratuitous drinking. <br />
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Despite this, Adama sends Tigh with a squadron of [[Colonial Marine Corps|Marines]] to arrest [[Laura Roslin]] after Adama discovers that she convinced [[Kara Thrace]] to [[FTL|Jump]] back to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] to retrieve a historical artifact called the [[Arrow of Apollo]] from the Delphi Museum. This action deprives the Fleet of a military asset - a captured [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Cylon Raider]], intended to have been used to plant a nuclear warhead aboard a basestar in orbit around the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] - and convinces Adama that Roslin is abusing her authority. <br />
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Onboard ''[[Colonial One]]'', Tigh's men and Roslin's [[Presidential Security Service|personal security agents]] are at a standoff when [[Lee Adama]] aims a weapon at Tigh's head and attempts to thwart the coup. Attempting to defuse the situation, Roslin agrees to be arrested and Lee Adama is arrested on charges of treason ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Tigh in Command ===<br />
[[Image:Scattered-Tigh.jpg|thumb|right|Tigh realizing he's in a bit over his head ([[Scattered]]).]]<br />
Tigh is present in [[CIC]] during the attempted assassination of Adama by [[Sharon Valerii]]. As guards restrain Valerii, Tigh attempts to stop the bleeding from the torso gunshot wounds Adama sustained in the attempt ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). He keeps Lee Adama from tending to his father and throws him into the brig. However, the need for reliable officers, forces Tigh to grant Lee a parole from his arrest. After his daily duties as [[CAG]] are done, Lee promises to return to the brig when off-shift.<br />
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With Adama incapacitated and with Roslin arrested, Tigh tries to maintain order. However, his irrational and gruff command style displeases many crew members. Morale and ship efficiency began to suffer. Ellen Tigh becomes a private adviser to her husband, frequently questioning his power to command while also suggesting ways of usurping more power and quashing his opponents. Ellen Tigh's advice only exacerbates an already-deteriorating situation.<br />
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Tigh's interrogation of suspected Cylon collaborators or infiltrators is brutal. After beating, then nearly shooting the ''Galactica'' copy of Valerii, other issues in the Fleet divert him from further interrogation. He orders a special cage made for her for later interrogation. Tigh also savagely interrogates Valerii's former lover, Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] as a possible [[humanoid Cylon]] himself. Tigh would have left him with Valerii in the newly built Cylon cage if [[Gaius Baltar]] did not intervene to prove medically that Tyrol is not a Cylon himself.<br />
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With Roslin in prison, uprisings begin as civilian ships refuse to supply ''Galactica'' until Roslin is released. Worse, the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] demand to see Roslin. Knowing of Roslin's hallucinations in the brig, he intentionally invites the Quorum to see Roslin in her poor state in hopes of disillusioning the Quorum. However, Roslin recovers sufficiently from her [[Chamalla]] withdrawal after getting a supply smuggled to her by Corporal [[Venner]], her guard. Tigh believes that the accounts within the [[Sacred Scrolls]] weren't to be believed, and teases Roslin in front of the Quorum on her visions. Roslin not only is able to speak to the Quorum, but decisively reinforces her decisions as well as her role in the search for the location of Earth as told in the Pythian prophesies. This act greatly impresses the Quorum, and infuriates Tigh; fearing a larger civilian government uprising led by the Quorum. Tigh institutes [[Wikipedia:martial law|martial law]] throughout the Fleet - a move he earlier had disclaimmed - in an attempt to maintain order in a rapidly chaotic shuffle of power between the civilian and military governments ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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The supply situation leads Tigh to deploying Marines in forcibly retrieving supplies. On [[Gideon|one ship]], a riot leads to four deaths and many injuries due to the pilot's inexperience in managing such a situation. Unlike Adama (who likely would have taken direct responsibility for the "Gideon Massacre"), Tigh places blame solely on the pilot, absolving himself from the incident.<br />
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=== Fleet Factioning and Adama's Return ===<br />
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The shootings, Tigh's decision for martial law, and his unwillingness to discuss anything with anyone except Ellen Tigh (and the unconscious Adama) becomes the dividing point of those wanting to press on to finding Earth, and those wanting to settle on Kobol ([[Season 2 (2005-06)|Season 2]]). Tigh's drinking spirals further out of control, leading to more erratic behavior and causing great concern regarding his ability to effectively command, particularly among the [[CIC]] staff. The situation comes to a head when Roslin, tacitly aided by other officers and crew on ''Galactica'', escapes the brig in an attempt to hide amongst the many ships in the Fleet with the aid of [[Tom Zarek]]. Tigh chases down the escaping Raptor using the [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]], having the Viper fire across the bow of the fleeing Raptor to persuade it to return. The Raptor brazenly continues onward, leading to a crucial decision for the Colonel. Tigh allows the Raptor to escape rather than shooting it down, which would have killed Adama's son and the President and could have destabilized the fleet.<br />
[[image:Flight_of_the_Phoenix-Tigh_Adama.jpg|thumb|left|Tigh and Adama share a knowing smirk at the commissioning of the [[Blackbird]], ''Laura'' ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).]]<br />
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Fortunately for the fleet and Colonel Tigh, Commander Adama regains consciousness shortly after the escape and asks what had happened during his absence. Tigh confesses that he has "frakked things up good", but Adama reassures his friend, saying, "I never had much use for people that second-guessed my decisions, especially if they've never held a command. They don't understand the pressure to make a call that affects the lives of thousands, and you have no one to turn to for backup." Despite all the serious problems that Tigh created, Adama doesn't blame him, telling Tigh that whatever bad calls were made, they would pick up the pieces together ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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Both Adama and Tigh underestimate the number of ships that secede from the main fleet to join the [[Laura Roslin faction|faction]] that sought the [[Tomb of Athena]] with President Roslin ([[The Farm]]). Tigh backs up Adama while he maintains a similar official position on Roslin and the separated ships as Tigh has. However, after Adama realizes that survival of the entire Fleet would only come if everyone held together, Adama begins to prepare a journey to Kobol to retrieve the remainder of the Fleet and reach out to Roslin ([[Home, Part I]]). At first Tigh seems to believe that Adama is retrieving the faction by more military means, and scoffs at Roslin's religious views on the quest until he realizes that Adama is beginning to follow Roslin's information, taking her reports and visions seriously. Tigh is left in command while Adama successfully reunites the Fleet and reconciles with Roslin ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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After [[William Adama|Adama's]] return to command and Roslin to the presidency, for a moment the ''Gideon'' incident is almost forgotten. Before she is invited to ''Galactica'', reporter [[D'Anna Biers]] prepares a story about the incident, which could destroy the public's view towards Tigh, and eventually ''Galactica''. However she drops the subject in favor of a ''Galactica'' documentary. Lt. [[Joe Palladino]], the pilot in charge of the boarding operation to ''Gideon'', blames Tigh for the discredit to his reputation. He begins to terrorize Tigh and his wife, but Tigh later manages to subdue Palladino ([[Final Cut]]).<br />
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=== ''Pegasus'' Discovered ===<br />
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Things once again turn on their head when ''Galactica'' has a chance encounter with the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', a modern type of battlestar and the flagship of Admiral [[Helena Cain]]. Cain, being the superior officer, assumes complete command of the Fleet. The naturally suspicious Tigh is wary about this mixed blessing, but takes it in stride like everything else up until now. When he begins to regularly speak with ''Pegasus''’s own XO [[Jack Fisk]], his suspicions slowly prove to be well founded.<br />
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Fisk's conscience-clearing sessions with Tigh reveal that Admiral Cain was responsible for a set of atrocities, the most damning being the pillaging and stranding of a small civilian fleet in open space. When Tigh relays this information to Commander Adama, Adama reminisces about their own questionable activities, particularly their actions regarding the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]''. However, Adama keeps Tigh's warnings in mind and they help him in his decision to stand up to Cain later on ("[[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]" through "[[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]").<br />
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=== The Election and New Caprica ===<br />
When the presidential election arrives, Colonel Tigh is charged with overseeing the vote tallies on ''Galactica''. When it appears that [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] would win the vote, [[Tory Foster]], President Roslin's aide, approaches Tigh and [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] to conspire to steal the election for Roslin, foreseeing certain disaster in a Baltar presidency. Tigh, never a fan of Baltar's to begin with, organises the counting of fraudulent ballots in order to keep Baltar out of office. The plot is overturned when Lt. [[Felix Gaeta|Gaeta]] reports irregularities to Tigh, who all too obviously tries to sweep the affair under the carpet. Gaeta then informs Admiral Adama, who lets Tigh and Dualla off the hook and the official vote tallies are "revised" without the public learning of the Roslin campaign's attempt to steal the election.<br />
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One year later, after the fleet settles on [[New Caprica]] on the orders of President Baltar, most of the military staff have all but retired from active service. Col. Tigh is one of the few officers still serving aboard ''Galactica'', but the day eventually comes when Admiral Adama discharges his friend and XO from his duties to let him return to civilian life with his wife. On the surface of New Caprica, the couple run into [[Kara Thrace]] at [[Galen Tyrol|Galen]] and [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] Tyrol's union rally. The former colonel and captain share an unusually warm embrace, having put their differences behind them at some point in the preceding year. However, their reunion does not last as a large Cylon fleet appears in orbit over the planet and the Cylons occupy New Caprica without firing a shot. Tigh and his wife are last seen watching in utter shock as [[Cylon Centurion]]s march through the streets of New Caprica City ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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=== Occupation and Resistance ===<br />
Two months into the occupation of New Caprica by the Cylons, Tigh is organizing and recruiting for [[New Caprica Resistance|the resistance on New Caprica]] along with Galen Tyrol and [[Jammer]]. When the Cylons begin to find the weapons hidden by the Resistance, Tigh orders them to be stored in the Temple, believing it to be the safest place as the Cylon respect the sanctity of the Temple and will not search it, disregarding any moral concerns. When the Cylons discover the weapons, [[Nora Farmer|Nora]] is shot and Cally Tyrol and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|baby]] barely escape. This leads several members of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] to question whether Tigh is going too far. After Tigh plans an attack that could endanger patients at a hospital, Jammer reports him to the Cylon authorities ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance]]). The Cylons imprison Tigh and tear his right eye out. Ellen's sexual efforts with [[Cavil]] lead to Tigh's eventual release ([[Occupation]]) though this is later revealed to be a Cylon ruse to blackmail Ellen into collaboration with the Cylons as well as find the location of a high level meeting of the Insurgency.<br />
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===Escape from New Caprica and Ellen's death===<br />
[[Image:Saulellen.jpg|Tigh handing Ellen her poisoned drink.|thumb]]Tigh actively participates in the exodus from New Caprica, leading an attack on the shipyard with Galen Tyrol, during which they are aided by Vipers launched from ''Galactica''.<br />
[[Image:TighAdamaReunion.jpg|thumb|left|Adama welcomes Tigh back on ''Galactica'' ([[Exodus, Part II]]).]]<br />
Following the escape, he initially resumes his post as the executive officer of ''Galactica'', but is unable to conceal his contempt for those who colluded with the Cylons, such as [[Felix Gaeta]]. In a face-off with Admiral Adama, in which the senior officer orders Tigh to "sleep it off", it is clear that the events on New Caprica - most notably, his wife's death - are still adversely affecting Tigh. Following that he spends a lot of time in his quarters trying to cope with what happened to him on New Caprica and is temporarily replaced by [[Karl Agathon]].<br />
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He eventually becomes the apparent ringleader of the [[The Circle|Circle]], a group of six people authorized by then-President [[Tom Zarek]], charged with bringing collaborators to justice. Tigh is among the less scrupulous members but nonetheless opposes [[Charlie Connor]]'s suggestion of summary executions. Thirteen people fall victim to the Circle's mandate, including [[Jammer]] ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Tigh is reunited with an old comrade, [[Daniel Novacek]] and tells him the truth of his last mission. Tigh later stops him when Novacek tries to kill Adama in revenge for being the cause of him spending years as a Cylon captive ([[Hero]]). Tigh also referees the boxing fights organized to boost morale ([[Unfinished Business]]). He returns to duty during operations to resupply the Fleet's food stores ([[The Passage]]). When [[Dr. Robert]], a civilian physician, is implicated in the deaths of [[Sagittaron]] refugees, Tigh initially defends his friend, saying that he worked with the resistance on New Caprica. He clashes with [[Karl Agathon]] over this, who insists on investigating Robert. However, when it turns out that Robert was killing the Sagittarons out of prejudice, Tigh orders his arrest ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Kara Thrace]] dies he is visibly heartbroken ([[Maelstrom]]), showing that he did truly care about her despite their differences, which he had begun to show in "[[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]". As the Fleet nears the [[Ionian nebula]] and Gaius Baltar's trial begins, Tigh is one of a few people who hear mysterious music on several occasions. When called to testify in court, he shows up drunk. [[Romo Lampkin|Baltar's lawyer]] exploits this vulnerability and forces Tigh to publicly admit that he killed his wife on New Caprica ([[Crossroads, Part I]]).<br />
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===The Damning Revelation===<br />
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[[Image:403 - Tigh and his gun.jpg|thumb|Tigh in his waking "nightmare" state ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).]]<br />
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Saul Tigh, [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Tory Foster]] begin to hear a [[The Music|song]] only they can hear over and over again, driving them to distraction. They instinctively come to the realization that they are four of the [[final five]] Cylons. They decide to remain loyal to the Colonials ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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With a Cylon fleet bearing down on them, Tigh resumes his position as executive officer again. However, almost immediately, this decision is tested by both Tigh's waking nightmares during the onset of the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle]]&mdash;where he believes he will kill his friend and commander, Adama, much the same way [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] tried to&mdash;and the return of [[Kara Thrace]], who may be a Cylon. Even amidst this, he is the ''de facto'' leader of the "Final Four" and continues to assure them that they are different than Boomer and the other Cylons. Further, he has them pledge to kill themselves should they feel any inkling of betraying the Fleet ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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In an attempt to learn more about what it means to be a Cylon and how they deal with pain, Tigh visits [[Caprica-Six]] in the [[brig]] and asks her how it feels to have the blood of billions of beings on her hands. Six replies that she is just as human as he is and can't switch off her feelings, but that she has found another way to deal with her pain. During their conversation, Tigh has a [[Virtual Ellen|hallucination]] of his dead wife, whose body he sees the place of Six. She tries to help him cope with his feelings and share some of her perceived clarity. In act of tenderness, she removes his eye patch, but Tigh rebukes her advances. Six then punches Tigh and kisses him when he lies on the floor ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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When [[Natalie]] offers the Colonials access to the Cylon [[Resurrection Hub]] and wants to unbox the [[Number Three|Threes]] in order to learn what she knows about the Final Five, Tigh reacts shocked and fears that he will be uncovered and killed. Instead of cooperation with the Cylon rebels, he urges President Roslin to just destroy the hub ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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When Doctor [[Cottle]] discovers that Caprica-Six is pregnant, Admiral Adama is angry at Tigh for "giving in to his weaknesses" and being disloyal. Tigh initially counters that Adama is risking a lot for [[Laura Roslin|woman he cares about]] as well. When Adama asks what Ellen would say about his actions, Tigh becomes furious and physically attacks Adama. The two exchange blows and Adama eventually shoves Tigh to the floor, who breaks Adama's model ship during the fall. Having vented their frustrations, both calm down. Later, Adama decides to stay back in a Raptor to wait for Roslin's return. He temporarily promotes Tigh to admiral and gives him command of the Fleet. Tigh is reluctant, recalling his previous [[Scattered|disastrous experience in command]], but takes the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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Tigh's anxiousness about being revealed as a Cylon is magnified when Adama returns with [[D'Anna Biers]]. However, instead of exposing him, she forces his hand by holding the Colonials on the Cylon baseship hostage, demanding that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them. To prevent Adama from carrying out an extremely risky and bloody rescue plan, Tigh decides to come clean himself. He confesses to William Adama, saying that he should have done so earlier. Adama can't believe his friend, but orders him arrested and brought to a [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]]. There, Tigh also exposes Tyrol and Anders. Tigh is about to be spaced, when Kara Thrace runs into the control room and tells everyone that she has found another clue towards [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. Before the final jump to Earth, Tigh sits in his quarters drinking, unsure what to do ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and further revelations===<br />
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Tigh and Caprica-Six accompany the survey team to Earth's surface, where the latter reaches out for and touches the former. Following their amnesty, Tigh, Anders and Tyrol wear fatigues with no rank insignia ([[Revelations]], [[Sometimes a Great Notion]]), and none is shown having any authority. Tigh's sidearm has not, however, been confiscated from his wall locker.<br />
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Back aboard ''Galactica'', a drunken Admiral Adama storms into Tigh's quarters, armed with a marine's pistol. Grabbing Tigh's pistol from its storage shelf, charging it, and dropping it on the table, Adama orders Tigh, "Sit down, Cylon!" Tigh successfully resists Adama's attemps to encourage Tigh into drinking and to be used for Adama's "assisted suicide". Tigh tries to apologize about his revelation of being a Cylon, but Adama is beyond angry. "Is that how it worked? They program you to be my friend? Emulate all the qualities I respect. Tell me jokes...and I laugh at them." Tigh counters that he wanted, chose to be his friend. Adama throws insult after insult about [[Ellen Tigh]], in an attempt to anger Tigh into picking up either sidearm to shoot his friend. "Do it! Or I'll do it myself!" Adama says, pointing the marine's pistol to his own temple. "I'm sorry, Bill, but this is the one time I can't help you," Tigh tells him ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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In a reversal of roles, Tigh is the sober one of the two, and gives Adama a much-needed dressing-down. After listening to Adama's story of foxes that would either fight, try to cross the river, or simply give up and float out to sea, Tigh admonishes him not be like foxes choosing to drown. He reminds Adama that he is still the commander and that Tigh is still the XO of the ship; killing himself would not help himself nor their people. Thereafter, Colonel Tigh is restored to his to his rank and position on ''Galactica'' ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Once again in his service uniform and wearing his rank, Tigh leads the round-up of the survey crews on the Earth surface in preparation for their journey toward a new home. At the water's edge, [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] informs him of her decision to give up and die alone on Earth. Their talk reminds Tigh of Adama's fox story, and he begins to walk into the sea. When chest-deep, he is compelled to reach down. In doing so, he discovers a mangled post box hatch from his apartment building lobby two millenia earlier. Like Tyrol, he has a vision of Earth's nuclear distruction. He is wearing a civilian business suit. He hears Ellen, finds her trapped under debris he cannot move. He splashes through the water as he remembers himself digging though the rubble to reach Ellen and remembers her prophesy. Ellen tells him, as more bombs go off, flashing bright, "Saul, it's okay. Everything's in place. We'll be reborn...again. Together." The vision fades as Tigh realizes the truth. "Ellen...Ellen! You're the [[Final Five|fifth!]]"<br />
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===The search for a home continues===<br />
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Col. Tigh relieves an exhausted Lt. [[Felix Gaeta]] from duty and orders him to take an ill-fated week's leave aboard ''[[Zephyr]]'' to rest and recover. After Gaeta's shuttle raptor is lost in an emergency FTL jump while en-route to ''Zephyr'', Tigh acquiesses to Lt. [[Louis Hoshi]]'s plea for a raptor and pilot with whom to search for his lover. Gaeta is the only survivor of the seven (five Colonials and two [[Number Eight]] Cylons) aboard the raptor, and explains that one of the Eights killed everyone else before being herself killed by Gaeta. After consulting off-camera with the rebel Cylons, Tigh tells him that the incident will not be investigated. Nevertheless, the incident leaves Gaeta aprehensive about their alliance with the rebel Cylons and asks to speak with Admiral Adama because, with all due respect, Tigh is a Cylon. Tigh reluctantly approves his request ([[The Face of the Enemy]]).<br />
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Days into the Fleet's search for a new home, Caprica-Six and Saul Tigh are in sickbay where Dr. Cottle is using a sonagram to show them their unborn child. Tigh can't see the image, when Cottle quips, "Try looking with your eyes...eye." In a moment of amazement while Assistant Layne Ishay points out the elements of the sonagram, an overwhelmed Tigh albeit happy, asks for a drink. Cottle offers a cigarette instead to Tigh as he lights one for himself, to Ishay's dismay.<br />
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In Admiral Adama's quarters, Lee Adama, Saul Tigh, Galen Tyrol, Felix Gaeta and Karl Agathon meet to discuss the implementation of Cylon FTL upgrades to the civilian ships. Tyrol argues that the Cylons become valid citizens of the Fleet, with their own representative on the Quorum and Adama's oath of protection if they are to get the Cylon technology. Tigh comments after Tyrol fubbles with his proper pronouns for the situation that he might need a chart to help him keep it right. <br />
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===Mutiny and the Return of Ellen===<br />
Felix Gaeta leads a mutiny alongside a coup lead by Tom Zarek in order to gain control of the Fleet. Adama and Tigh are captured, but manage to escape and meet up with Lee and Kara. They make their way to a forgotten airlock where Baltar and Roslin escape in a Cylon Raptor to the [[Rebel Basestar]] while Adama stays behind to try to retake ''Galactica''. Tigh insists on staying with him despite being a likely target due to being a Cylon and Adama tells him that "its been an honor to serve with you my friend." ([[The Oath]]) The two are knocked out by a stun grenade and captured by marines led by Captain Aaron Kelly who Tigh insults. He's taken to the brig where Caprica Six, Helo, Athena and Anders already are, but they are rescued by Kara and Lee. However, Anders is seriously hurt and Kara stays behind to get him to Doctor Cottle. The freed prisoners find Kelly who defects and shows them where Admiral Adama is about to be executed and they arrive just in time to save his life. Tigh holds a gun on Narcho who's in charge of the firing squad and forces him not to tell Gaeta the truth. After Narcho refuses to help retake the ship, Tigh goes to shoot him, but is stopped by Adama who has him tied up instead. Tigh is part of Adama's march to retake CIC and helps recapture it without firing a shot, ending the mutiny. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Tigh laters learns some of his history from Anders who has regained his Cylon memories after being shot in the head during the mutiny. ([[No Exit]]) He is also shocked when a missing Raptor shows up carrying Boomer and his wife Ellen who had downloaded into a new body on a [[Resurrection Ship]] after he had killed her and had been a prisoner of [[Cavil]] until Boomer helped her escape. The Rebel Cylons are excited to have all of the Final Five with them and want to leave the Fleet and leave it up to a majority vote of the Five. Tigh, remembering that Anders told him to stay with the Fleet, votes to stay and given what Anders said, they take it as a vote to stay as well, Tyrol and Tory vote to go, but Ellen is shocked and undecided after learning that he got Caprica Six pregnant. He later asks for a private meeting with Ellen, but she summons Tyrol, Tory and Caprica Six to tell them that they're going to leave the Fleet, doing it just to spite him as she knows how much he loves the Fleet. Tigh refuses to go saying that they can go without him and if Caprica Six really wants to go, she can go too, but he's not going. Ellen uses this to say he loves the Fleet and Bill Adama more than he loves either of them, but Caprica Six suddenly goes into distress and starts to miscarry the baby. A horrified Ellen apologizes saying she only wanted to hurt him, not Caprica Six or the baby. She tells them that they can stay and should and that she'll move to the [[Rebel Basestar]] and leave him alone. He at first pushes her away, but eventually allows her to comfort him. She tries to get him to tell Caprica Six how much he loves her, but he can't seem to do it. Caprica Six miscarries and their baby dies in the womb. Later Tigh goes to Admiral Adama and cries about his lost son. ([[Deadlocked]]) The death of their baby is also apparently the end of the relationship between Tigh and Caprica Six.<br />
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Tigh is with Ellen, Tyrol and Tory in Joe's Bar when Kara starts playing the music, surprising them all. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Afterwards he's shocked when Admiral Adama decides to order ''Galactica's'' repairs to stop and the ship to be scrapped for parts. The two share a toast to the ship. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]])<br />
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When Adama calls for volunteers for a rescue mission for Hera Agathon, Tigh volunteers immediatly alongside Ellen. ([[Daybreak, Part 1]]) During the [[Battle of The Colony]], Tigh coordinates the battle with Admiral Adama in CIC. When a fire breaks out near Anders, he goes up with Tyrol to put it out and stays on the balcony afterwards. During the attempt to get Cavil to stop all of this and release Hera who he has taken hostage in CIC, Tigh offers him resurrection if he agrees to let Hera go and stop chasing humanity. After he agrees the Five combine together to send the plans for resurrection to The Colony and Tigh calms a nervous Tory by saying they forgive her sins when she gets worried about everyone seeing everyone else's memories. Tigh is shocked to discover that Tory murdered Cally and can only watch as Tyrol kills Tory in revenge. After ''Galactica'' jumps away, Tigh resumes his duties as XO and reports that ''Galactica'' suffered critical structural failures and "broke her back" and can't jump anymore. After landing on their new home planet that they name Earth, Tigh and Ellen say goodbye to Tyrol who plans to go off and live as a hermit and Tigh forgives him for killing Tory, saying he'd have done the same thing if someone had done that to Ellen. Tigh and Ellen rekindle their relationship and go off to spend the rest of their lives together. ([[Daybreak, Part 2]])<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
Col. Tigh is unabashedly pro-human and has stayed fiercely loyal to [[William Adama]] and the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] despite almost being killed by his son [[Lee Adama]] in a rage over his-from Lee's point of view-his life long deception of his father and the Fleet. He has face such deadly hostility but has persevered perhaps in part if not in whole because he shared such prejudice himself. This is including serving in the [[New Caprica Resistance|Resistance]] on [[New Caprica]] and having no compunction in blowing up Cylons and alleged collaborators alike. He was often the first to call for the execution of any Cylons found among them. He even killed his own wife [[Ellen Tigh]] for betraying the Resistance essentially under [[Samuel Anders]]' orders.<br />
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When he found out he was a "[[skinjob]]" he was of course stunned. He had a waken nightmare of himself repeating the act of [[Sharon Valerii]] shooting Admiral Adama under programming. He pledged with the other three [[Final Five]] Cylons aboard ''Galactica'' to remain loyal and at their post but if any of them including himself showed signs of working against the interest of the Fleet via hidden program, they should be killed or turned in. Since his discovery his loyalty has not wavered. Indeed he was disappointed in [[Tory Foster]]'s defection to the Cylons and [[Galen Tyrol]]'s wavering of who he should belong to. Sam Anders has a similar attitude as Tigh for being loyal to humanity but not as strong-or at least not stated as strongly.<br />
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Tigh has fully accepted his Cylon nature to the point he cohabitates with [[Caprica-Six]] who is carrying the couple's child. During the mutiny he is willing to die by the side of his best friend and commanding officer William Adama despite Adama's drunken attempts to bait Tigh into killing him only days earlier. He has said that mankind has a lot to answer for regarding the treatment of the Cylons before the [[Second Cylon War]] began, but he actually argued to Tyrol and particularly Tory Foster that it is by no means entirely the fault of humankind for their own destruction:<center><blockquote>''NO! Maybe we share the guilt with the humans but we don't get to just shove it off onto them".</blockquote></center><br />
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Like Tyrol and Foster, he has no independent recollection of his life before Cavil killed him and implanted false memories but he was, as related by Samuel Anders, one of the Five to stop the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]] the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Colonial Centurion Cylons]] were raging some 40 years before so his attitude may moderate, but probably won't change his pro-human outlook.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
* Tigh is supposedly a third-generation Colonial soldier. His father was a decorated fighter pilot killed in combat and his grandfather served under President [[Mueller (president)|Mueller]]. Also, Tigh was a published military historian until personal problems became apparent ([[Miniseries]], [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)|deleted scene]]). However, given Tigh's recently-revealed Cylon nature, his family history may be a fabrication. Tigh's interest in military history has not been mentioned on screen after the Miniseries, although he mentions various Cylon tactics in use from the Cylon War that came to save ''Galactica'' after being boarded by [[Centurion (RDM)|Centurion]]s ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
* Tigh's first name has been given as "Paul" on a number of websites. This is initially based on an early [http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-ms1.pdf version of the script] '''(PDF file)''', which has Adama speaking to "Paul" in their discussion of his fight with Kara Thrace. In the [[podcast]] [[Podcast:Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down|commentary]] on the episode "[[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]", [[Ronald D. Moore]] has indicated that the character's name initially was Paul Tigh. The name had to be changed due to legal issues that Moore was unable to recall in that podcast.<br />
* Tigh is based on the character of Paul Eddington in the movie ''[[w:In Harm's Way|In Harm's Way]]'' portrayed by [[w:Kirk Douglas|Kirk Douglas]] (with [[w:John Wayne|John Wayne]]).<br />
* Tigh's (albeit false) age is one of the only ones which can be accurately deduced. According to a [[List of Deleted Scenes (RDM)#Valley of Darkness|deleted scene]] from "[[Valley of Darkness]]", he served on the ''[[Brenik]]'' when it was boarded during the second year of the Cylon War. Tigh says that he was "just a kid. Virgin. Teenager." It is known that [[Colonial Day (holiday)|Colonial Day]] is the anniversary of both the unification of the Colonies, and (roughly) the outbreak of the Cylon War<ref>http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/archives/2005/04/index.html#a RDM, April 11, 2005]</ref>, and was 52 years ago ([[Colonial Day]]). Thus, Tigh is between 63 and 69 years old at the beginning of Season 2.<br />
* In the DVD commentary of "[[Act of Contrition]]", Ron Moore notes that actor [[Michael Hogan]] won the role of Tigh over [[Donnelly Rhodes]], who was one of two other actors vying for the part. Rhodes went on to play the role of [[Cottle|Dr. Cottle]], ''Galactica'''s CMO.<br />
* According to ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine]]'', Tigh's home colony is [[Aerelon]]. However, in "[[Dirty Hands]]", [[Cally Tyrol|Cally]] claims that virtually no officers in the Colonial Fleet are from poorer colonies. While this could be an exaggeration, her [[Galen Tyrol|husband]] brings up [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]] as counter-example, but not Tigh.<br />
*Tigh's Cylon identity may be alluded to as early as "[[Occupation]]": not only does he have only one eye at this point, but the Cylon "scanning eye" sound effect can be faintly heard as he looks toward the open door of his cell when Cavil enters to tell him that he has been released.<br />
*In several interviews included on the Season 4.0 DVD, actor Michael Hogan cites fan polls that indicated Tigh was considerd one of the least likely characters to be a Cylon. This would also seem to extend to the production crew, as a highlight of the 2006 Gag Reel shown at the San Diego Comic Con was a comedic segment suggesting that Tigh was the "13th Cylon".<br />
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|age=Approximately 32<ref>Tyrol stated that he has "served on battlestars since I was 18" ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and had "ten years experience" at the time of the Cylon attack ([[Miniseries]]) which would make him 28 at the time. The series concludes four years later.</ref>, actually 2,000+<ref>[This is due to extreme long age flight at near but not equaling light speed. Thus succumbing to relativistic affects including only from his point of view being in space for only a few years. Therefore in addition to have actually been born his actual age biologically speaking is actually closer to 30 possibly older but not 2,000.</ref> <br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival and Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Gemenon|Gemenon]])<br />
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|death= 1. Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>2. suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 32 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>3. died after 4 ACH settlement on New Earth<br />
|parents= Allegedly an unnamed [[oracle]] (mother) and [[priest]] (father).<br />
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|children=[[Nicholas Tyrol]] (not biological)<br />
|marital status= Widowed, formerly married to [[Cally Tyrol|Cally (Henderson) Tyrol]]†;<br>Involved with [[Tory Foster]]† on original Earth<br />
|role= Tribal King of the Scots [[#Notes|See More...]];<br>Deck Chief of [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'';<br>Temporarily principal liaison between rebel Cylons and Colonials;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= [[wikipedia:Senior Chief Petty Officer|Senior Chief Petty Officer]] [[#Rank Notes|See More...]]<br />
|serial= 312365<ref name="serial">The original dog tags showed a different name and serial number: "C. Tyrol ser 312365" ([http://www.mediablvd.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16040&view=findpost&p=1890295 "Questions for Aaron Douglas"] messageboard Q&A with actor Aaron Douglas).</ref> <br/>409185<ref name="serial 2">Recent tag photos from the actor show the correct name but with a new serial number ([http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/45310.html The Chief's Deck fan blog]), which is also the number supplied to QMX for the dogtag replicas.</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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=== Background ===<br />
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'''Galen Tyrol''', often referred to as "Chief", is the highest ranking NCO remaining aboard ''[[Galactica]]''. He served aboard battlestars from the age of eighteen, including ''[[Columbia (RDM)|Columbia]]'', ''[[Atlantia (RDM)|Atlantia]]'', and ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). He has served under [[William Adama]] on ''Galactica'' for five years ([[Litmus]]), and has considerable respect for the Commander - a feeling that is reciprocated. Indeed, he admires Adama to such a degree that he has modeled his own style of leadership on that of Adama: firm, fair, and willing to go to the fullest degree in support of his crew.<br />
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However, when people under his responsibility are injured, threatened or killed, Tyrol becomes rather irrational, angry, and reckless in his actions, to the point of further endangering his people or his reputation with senior officers. Prime examples of his lack of emotional control includes the scenes before the ship venting after the nuke hit and cursing [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] in front of Commander Adama for the vent and loss of 85 of his people ([[Miniseries]]), and saving a mortally-wounded crewmate while leaving himself and [[Cally Henderson]] highly vulnerable in "[[Scattered]]". Tyrol's tryst with [[Sharon Valerii]] and a subsequent cover-up attempt in "[[Litmus]]" resulted in the jailing of Specialist [[Socinus]], who was trying to protect Tyrol.<br />
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Originally leading [[Deck Crew 5]], a team of 15 [[deckhand]]s and specialists, since the Cylon attack he has become the most senior and experienced NCO on ''Galactica''. <br />
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===First and Second Life Cycles===<br />
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Tyrol was born on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] during its last days. He was a senior researcher in a special team attempting to recover [[downloading]] technology, which had been lost since the founding of the colony. His work was considered key. In his first body, he wore glasses. He was planning to marry fellow team member [[Tory Foster]]. The two of them were lovers and shared living quarters.<br />
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Prior to the war, Tyrol and the others received warnings about the war from beings they saw which no others could see. Tyrol insisted there must be a chip in his head creating the visions, not unlike Baltar would thousands of years later. The work was completed. Tyrol was killed by a very close nuclear flash as he was shopping in a fruit and flower market. The vaporization of his body left a shadow on a concrete wall visible 2,000 years later.<br />
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His consciousness was transferred to a ship orbiting the planet. He and the others set out in a slower-than-light ship to re-find Kobol and the 12 tribes. He arrived at the colonies during the first Cylon war, and helped construct the eight humanoid Cylons. He was betrayed, killed and boxed by [[Number One]], who later resurrected him with false memories and planted him in the colonies for his next life cycle.<br />
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=== Cylon Attack ===<br />
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At the time of the Cylon attack, as well as leading his deck crew, Tyrol is overseeing the refurbishment and restoration of [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] [[Viper Mark II|Mark II]] [[Viper 7242|N7242C]] - the Viper originally flown by William Adama at the time of the [[Cylon War]] ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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Following the attack, with ''Galactica'' undermanned, Tyrol also performs the function of senior Damage Control officer ([[Miniseries]] / [[Water]]), a role that brings him into conflict with [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] after the ''Galactica'' is struck by a Cylon nuclear warhead.<br />
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=== Relationship with Sharon Valerii ===<br />
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[[Image:Sharontyrol.jpg|thumb|right|[[Sharon Valerii]] and Galen Tyrol.]]<br />
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For several months prior to the Cylon attack, and in its aftermath, Tyrol has been engaged in an affair with Lieutenant [[Sharon Valerii]], one of ''Galactica'''s [[Raptor]] pilots. Despite the fact the relationship breaks military protocol, senior officers on the ship turn a blind eye to it, while Tyrol's own crew treat it with fond amusement. <br />
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When the water supplies on ''Galactica'' are sabotaged, Tyrol is placed in an awkward position: by her own admission, Valerii knows explosives were missing from a small-arms locker - potentially making her a suspect - and he is the principal DC investigator into the cause of the explosions which wreck the water tanks. Torn between love and duty, the situation prompts him to hide evidence and allow a theory that the walls of the tanks simply collapsed from fatigue resulting from damage ''Galactica'' received from a nuclear warhead in the Cylon attack ([[Water]] / [[Miniseries]]).<br />
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Following the sabotage attempt, Valerii is ordered to end her relationship with Tyrol ([[Bastille Day]]) as a part of a general tightening-up of security and discipline on ship, only to have Tyrol's deck crew help the two of them to continue to meet in greater secret ([[Litmus]]). <br />
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Tyrol's world is thrown further into turmoil when both he and Valerii become the prime suspects in an investigation into how a humanoid Cylon (a copy of [[Aaron Doral]]) managed to get aboard the ''Galactica'', kill a guard, steal explosives and them blow himself up in a ship's corridor, almost killing Adama and Tigh ([[Litmus]]). When [[Socinus|one of his own Specialists]] is thrown in the brig for dereliction of duty which may have enabled the Cylon to access a weapons locker and steal the explosives, Tyrol is shocked into re-thinking his relationship with Valerii, and ends it himself. <br />
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While they continue to encounter one another professionally - their work means they can hardly avoid one another - Tyrol and Valerii now have an uneasy distance between each other, and Valerii's actions around a captured Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] have begun to disturb Tyrol.<br />
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=== Kobol ===<br />
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When [[The Fleet (RDM)|the Fleet]] discovers the planet believed to be [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Tyrol arranges for Socinus' release and later berates the specialist for lying to cover for him. Thereafter, Tyrol is part of the team assembled on the ill-fated recon Kobol on the [[Raptor 1]], which then crashlands near the ruins of the [[Tomb of Athena]]. ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]], [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Part II]]) <br />
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While Tyrol is the more experienced leader, his non-commissioned status leaves Lieutenant [[Alex Quartararo|Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo]] in charge of the survivors. When Crashdown blames [[Tarn]] for leaving a needed med kit behind -- Socinus is injured during the crash and [[serisone]] is needed to help him breathe -- Tyrol steps in, recommending that he and [[Cally Henderson]] accompany Tarn. After successfully retrieving the kit from the Raptor crash site and heading back to the party, the trio is ambushed by Cylons and Tarn is killed ([[Scattered]]). Eventually, he and Henderson make it back to the party, only to find out that it is too late. Upon [[Seelix]]'s urging, Tyrol euthanizes Socinus with an overdose of [[morpha]] from both medkits to spare him a more painful death ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
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Upon discovering that the Cylons are setting up an anti-aircraft missile battery, Crashdown plans a strike to take the unit (and its accompanying [[DRADIS]] dish) out of operation. While the others of his party, notably Baltar and Henderson, attempt to voice their indignation of such a plan, Tyrol firmly reminds them that Crashdown is in charge. Despite Tyrol's own misgivings of how the plan is to be executed, they follow through to the point right before the attack. <br />
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When it becomes clear that there were five Cylons at the battery, Henderson refuses to conduct a diversionary attack. Tyrol attempts to diffuse the situation by trying to state that the DRADIS dish is undefended; all that needs to be done is to destroy it, and the turret could not automatically target the incoming [[SAR]] operation. Crashdown has a breakdown and irrationally threatens to kill Henderson, prompting Baltar to [[w: Frag (military)|frag]] Crashdown. <br />
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As the command officer, per se, Tyrol later destroys the DRADIS dish as the Cylons pursue them towards it. Tyrol then makes a stand against the Cylons, screaming and firing his pistol at them. The Cylons are all killed; a surprised Tyrol turns around and sees that a [[Raptor]], preserved by Tyrol's destruction of the dish, has destroyed the Centurions with a missile ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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=== After Kobol ===<br />
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Tyrol is arrested and interrogated by Colonel Tigh, due to his relationship with Commander Adama's would-be assassin. Tigh accuses him of being part of the plot to kill Adama, throwing him in the same cell as Valerii. Baltar later visits the cell on the pretense of drawing Tyrol's blood to analyze via the [[Cylon detector]]. In fact, Tyrol is used as a means to extract information from Valerii; Baltar injects a drug that induces a systemic shutdown of Tyrol's organs, telling Valerii that the chief only has moments to live and that providing him with information on the numbers of humanoid Cylons within the fleet is the only thing that could save Tyrol. After extracting the alleged number of Cylons in the Fleet from Valerii, Tyrol is injected with an antidote and is eventually declared human by Baltar (who does not run the test). <br />
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Tyrol is present when his own deckhand, Cally Henderson, kills Valerii, as Tyrol accompanies the security escort to Valerii's testing cell ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). This act causes Tyrol to withdraw more from interaction with his own staff, many of which are already treating him coldly from his interaction with the now-confirmed Cylon Valerii.<br />
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As with many on ''Galactica'', the stress of working without relief in sight or with little hope begins to take its toll on Tyrol. For him, the challenge of keeping the old Vipers running with very few spare parts and sometimes extensive damage becomes too much to manage. Under pressure from [[CAG]] [[Lee Adama]] to keep his Vipers flying, and mostly because he has little else to do, he scribbles out a design for a new fighter and begins to assemble it from basic metals and parts ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Initially, his deck crews are skeptical that the Chief's project is anything but a pipe dream. But word soon spreads as the fuselage forms and Tyrol's dream becomes reality. While Colonel Tigh is visibly against the project at first, Commander Adama notices that the project, for whatever outcome it might yield, gives the crew something to strive for, something to hope for, and tacitly allows off-duty crew to work on it. Many, including [[Anastasia Dualla]] from [[CIC]], and [[Kara Thrace]], lend a hand.<br />
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Tyrol's group is stuck when trying to place a skin on the new fighter since the necessary parts are reserved for the Vipers. But [[Karl Agathon]] suggests carbon composite materials as an alternative to cover the ship. This solves the covering but adds a significant new ability: stealth. The carbon composites would make the new fighter nearly invisible to [[DRADIS]] detection.<br />
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After the ship's [[logic bomb]] crisis, the new fighter, named the [[Blackbird]], is given a trial flight by Kara Thrace, with very good results. In a ceremony, President Roslin christens the vessel and Tyrol reveals the nickname of the Blackbird in honor of the President: ''Laura''.<br />
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=== Helo's Return ===<br />
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After the return of [[Karl Agathon]] and another version of Sharon Valerii, pregnant with Agathon's child, the two attempt to reconcile their feelings for the biological creation. Helo and Tyrol eventually have a fistfight with lots of name calling over what the Sharons were, but in reality, both are upset over the fact that the two Cylon copies were real people that whom they loved, despite the reality of what they are ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Their realization of this fact leads them to what amounted to an uneasy truce.<br />
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Later on, after the appearance of Admiral [[Helena Cain]] and the advanced [[Mercury-class]] ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', he and Agathon stop Lieutenant [[Alastair Thorne]] from raping Sharon and Tyrol accidentally kills Thorne in the process. Tyrol and Agathon are summarily arrested and transferred to ''Pegasus'' for court martial, against Commander Adama's objections. However, Admiral Cain's "court martial" is over before Adama even knows it began, and she sentences both to be executed for murder and treason. This prompts Adama to launch Vipers and a Raptor loaded with a marine strike team to recover them both ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
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Helo and Tyrol receive a stay of execution through the efforts of [[Laura Roslin]] while the two battlestar commanders prepare to destroy the [[Resurrection Ship]] and its Cylon attack fleet that has followed ''Galactica''. Tyrol admits to his difficulty with dealing with the existence of the second Sharon, and tells Helo that he's got to "let it go", an idea that Helo supports, both understanding each other's take on the situation.<br />
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The two prisoners are seen receiving two sets of visitors, one welcome, one not. First, Lieutenant Adama visits them to tell them how close ''Galactica'' came to a shooting war with ''Pegasus'' ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]), asking the two, "Just how many kinds of stupid ''are'' you?" A day or so later, Specialists [[Vireem]] and [[Gage]] bind and beat the two prisoners in retaliation for the death of Lieutenant Thorne. [[Executive officer]] [[Jack Fisk]] comes to break up the beating, but refuses the prisoners' thanks as he was fond of Thorne himself.<br />
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After the escaped humanoid Cylon [[Gina]] escapes and shoots Admiral Cain, killing her, Tyrol and Helo are released and return to ''Galactica''. Both Tyrol and Helo visit Sharon Valerii at her specialized cell. She happily greets Helo, but completely ignores Tyrol. He gets the hint and soon leaves the room, still unable to recover from the memory of the Sharon he knew as "Boomer".<br />
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=== Depression and Suicidal Yearnings ===<br />
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Tyrol also begins to experience a recurring nightmare in which he jumps from the upper portion of the flight deck to his death. [[Cally Henderson]] finds him asleep but twitching on the ''Galactica'' deck, but when she attempts to wake him, he attacks her in a frenzied rage, beating her savagely. <br />
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Deeply distressed by what he had done, Tyrol requests counselling with a priest, and is assigned [[Cavil|Brother Cavil]]. After some time with Tyrol, Cavil identifies the source of Tyrol's anxiety as arising from fear that he is a [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon sleeper agent]], much like [[Sharon Valerii]] was. Tyrol points out that Sharon was totally convinced by her programming that she was human; Tyrol is haunted by the fear that it was impossible to truly know if you were a Cylon or not. Cavil assures him that he was not, quipping that he knew "because I'm a Cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings.".<br />
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[[Cavil]] tells him to get back to work, which is where his real family is, and argues that they, [[Deck Crew 5|the deck crew]], love him, "even Cally, ''especially'' Cally" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]). Tyrol is subsequently responsible for exposing [[Cavil]] as a humanoid Cylon when he recognizes him as one of the returnees from the rescue mission to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. Upon realizing this, Tyrol tackles Cavil, calls for security, and states 'Code Blue.'<br />
[[Image:Tyrol LDYBII.JPG|thumb|Tyrol as Union President ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]])]]<br />
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===On New Caprica===<br />
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A year later, Tyrol lives in [[New Caprica City]] and is the president of the Worker's Union, a vocal opponent of President Baltar's administration. By this point, he has married Henderson, who is pregnant 380 days after settling on the planet. Tyrol and Henderson witness the arrival of the Cylons on the planet, and go to [[Kara Thrace]] for guidance. She tells him to "fight them until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
Shortly thereafter, their son [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]] is born and later [[dedication ceremony|dedicated]] to the god of war Ares ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance, Episode 10]]).<br />
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By Day 67 of the Cylon Occupation, he begins working with [[Saul Tigh]] about forming an armed resistance movement against the Cylon forces ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 1|The Resistance, Episode 1]]). They begin to cache weapons, hiding them in various places, including a temple ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance#Episode 3|The Resistance, Episode 3]]). Through his efforts, the Resistance begins to pick up membership in combating the Cylon Oppressors.<br />
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By Day 134, the Resistance is in full swing, working with [[Samuel Anders]] to hit high profile targets, including a Heavy Raider ([[Occupation]]). He becomes at odds with Tigh over the use of suicide bombing to strike at President Baltar during the [[NCP]] Graduation Ceremony, but manages to get a signal to an orbiting Raptor from the Fleet ([[Occupation]]). As a result, he works with Tigh to disrupt the Cylons enough until ''Galactica'' and the Fleet can return.<br />
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After learning that his wife is among the detainees taken by the [[NCP]], Tyrol begins a plan to rescue them using the information provided [[Felix Gaeta|from a source]] within Baltar's government, which is ultimately successful ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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===After The Second Exodus===<br />
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Following the successful escape from New Caprica with the colonists, Tyrol re-enlists in ''Galactica'''s crew. Meanwhile, he becomes a member of [[the Circle]], a secret tribunal authorized by President Tom Zarek to judge and convict Cylon collaborators. In this position, he acts in a scrupulous manner, insisting on proper procedure and often being the last member to cast his vote. When [[Felix Gaeta]] is tried and sentenced to death, Tyrol realises that Gaeta was the "inside source" in Baltar's administration and without his help the Colonials probably would never escape from New Caprica. That revelation saves Gaeta's life. Soon afterwards the circle is disbanded by President Roslin ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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===Seeing the Eye===<br />
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[[Image:3x11 Temple of Five discovery.jpg|thumb|left|Tyrol discovers the Temple of Five ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).]]<br />
Tyrol, his wife, and a small group of people are camped on the [[algae planet]] as they continue their harvest of badly-needed algae to be used as food for the Fleet ([[The Passage]]). Tyrol, however, senses something on the planet, and soon goes to investigate alone. He finds, within a mountain, a constructed entrance, which leads to an immense chamber, with five pentagonal obelisks, a central circular spire and writings of Colonial origin. Tyrol has discovered something that his parents, one a [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies (RDM)#The Clergy|priest]] and another an [[oracle]], would have longed to see: [[The Temple of Five]]. Tyrol has apparently and inadvertently discovered a family heritage to sense spiritual forces, or at least, ancient Colonial structures.<br />
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After the Cylons arrive in force at the algae planet and threaten to destroy ''Galactica'' if they attempt to leave with the Eye (with the Colonials threatening to nuke the planet if the Cylons attempt to do the same), Tyrol is ordered to wire the Temple with [[G-4]] to prevent a Cylon incursion. He begins to touch the central symbol on the center spire as, unknown to him, Cylons begin their move on the Temple ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).<br />
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===The life of a knuckledragger===<br />
During an outbreak of [[Mellorak infection|Mellorak sickness]], Tyrol displays a shared and apparently wide spread prejudice against [[Sagittaron]]s, including worrying that if they abandoned their religious belief against using scientific medicine the rest of the Fleet would have to share the scarce [[bittamucin]] drug that cures the disease ([[The Woman King]]). <br />
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The Tyrols are put in danger after Galen and Cally are trapped in a depressurizing airlock during routine maintenance. With no other options before air runs out, the two are ejected into open space and into a Raptor, despite the lack of pressure suits. Suffering [[w:Decompression sickness|decompression sickness]], Tyrol recovers in bed in sickbay while his wife recovers in a hyperbaric chamber. Tyrol finds himself with more time to care for his son, [[Nicholas Tyrol|Nicholas]], as his wife desired ([[A Day In The Life]]).<br />
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Tyrol and Admiral Adama lock horns in a labor dispute. Tyrol takes the side of workers aboard the [[refinery ship]] ''[[Hitei Kan]]'' who go on strike due their bad working and living conditions. Tyrol backs down when Adama threatens to have his wife executed. Later Tyrol and President Roslin come to a mutual agreement, and a [[Colonial Worker's Alliance|workers union]] is reformed from Tyrol's New Caprica days ([[Dirty Hands]]).<br />
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===Revelations===<br />
When the Fleet heads towards the Ionian nebula, Tyrol is driven to unrest by a strange [[The Music|music]] he hears. Arriving at the nebula, the effect intensifies, and Tyrol is drawn together with [[Tory Foster]], [[Samuel Anders]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. Initially shocked at the discovery that he is one of the [[final five]] Cylons, Tyrol chooses, along with the other three, to return to his post and his duties in defending the Fleet from an incoming Cylon fleet ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). However, over the next months the four hold clandestine meetings in various locations, discussing their nature and their actions.<br />
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Tyrol has difficulty coping with this new revelation, beginning to cut himself. Although trying to act normally, Tyrol's changed behavior eventually has an effect on his marriage. He alienates his wife, who begins to take anti-depressants to cope. After she witnesses one of their secret meetings, she is killed by Foster, who makes it appear like a suicide ([[The Ties That Bind]]). Tyrol's personal problems are magnified by his wife's death and having to care alone for his son. An uncharacteristic "[[frak]]-up" on the hanger deck nearly results in catastrophe and a drunken tirade against Admiral Adama in [[Joe's bar]] earns him demotion and re-assignment ([[Escape Velocity]]). His shaving of his head reflects a continuing troubled state of mind. Blaming himself for Cally's death, he nearly commits suicide, but is unable to bring himself to pull the trigger. During this, he also clashes with [[Gaius Baltar]] over the memory of his wife and Baltar's new cult. However, when Baltar apologizes in private and explains the reasons for becoming a religious figure, Tyrol seems to forgive him ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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When the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]] take hostages and demand that the Cylons on ''Galactica'' are turned over to them, Saul Tigh comes clean and reveals the four. Tigh is about to be executed when [[Kara Thrace]] runs into the [[Launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] control room announcing that she found another clue towards Earth. In an unexpected move, President [[Lee Adama]] grants the Cylons a full amnesty. When the Fleet makes its final jump to Earth, Tyrol sits in his quarters with his son ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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===Earth and after===<br />
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Tyrol is among those that make the initial landing on Earth. His reaction to the burnt-out, radiated wasteland is different from the others; he smiles in a cynical grin, shaking his head. As they all begin to explore, he is attracted to a fragment of wall. As he gets closer, he hears echoes of ghosts saying things like "Fresh fruit, get your fresh fruit!" He sees a human silhouette on the wall, looking as if it were painted there. Surrounding the silhouette is weathered writing, barely readable. Tyrol touches the silhouette--and is thrown into a vision of the world as it once was, and Tyrol as he once was, wearing glasses and a sportcoat as he passes through a bustling marketplace of open carts of fruit and flowers and other goods. He stops to buy an avocado himself then continues walking. A massively bright flash of light appears as Tyrol shields his eyes - and stumbles back away from the wall and falls to the ground ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Among the Cylons in the fleet, Tyrol has (thus far) been shown as the most torn between his worlds since the arrival of the rebel Cylon basestar. Saul Tigh, Sam Anders and Sharon Agathon remained on active duty and retained their rank [though Tigh and Anders may have been temporarily relieved between their identification in "Revelations" and the end of "Sometimes a Great Notion"]. Tory Foster defected to the Cylons; and the rebel Sixes, Eights, Twos, rebel [[Hybrid]] and (apparently) their [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]]s and [[Cylon Centurion|Centurions]] having had their [[telencephalic inhibitor]]s removed, identify entirely as Cylons. Caprica-Six, though remaining aboard ''Galactica'' with the father of her child (and with the only physician with Cylon obstetric experience), identifies herself exclusively as a Cylon and is quite excited about her ability to bear a wholly-Cylon child. The only un-boxed [[Number Three]] maroons herself on Earth with the bones of their ancestors. Conversely, Tyrol appears to have one foot in each society.<br />
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Unlike Tigh, Anders and Agathon, Tyrol's duty status is "inactive" from the time of his exposure in "Revelations" until the first act of "No Exit"<ref>FTL engine room control computer terminal showed his status at the end of "Blood on the Scales". He accepts Adm. Adama's request to return to active duty as a Chief Petty Officer (presumably SCPO) whilst discussing the necessary ship repairs in the FTL engine room in Act 1 of "No Exit".</ref>, though he apparently continues to reside aboard ''Galactica'' with his nominal son. It is revealed in "[[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]" that he serves as an intermediary between the rebel Cylons and the Colonial government (or specifically Adama), and vouched for Adama's character and trustworthiness before the rebel Cylons. He conveys their offer to upgrade Colonial FTL drives with Cylon technology in exchange for citizenship and representation. In doing so, Tyrol finds himself confused by what pronouns to use with respect to Colonials and Cylons, demonstrating his struggle with his group identity. Out of habit, he initially refers to the rebel Cylons in the third person before correcting himself to use the first person, and likewise speaks of the colonists in the first person with an immediate amendment to the second person. The only other Cylon who formerly served in the Colonial military and is not currently on active duty is Tryol's former lover, Sharon Valerii.<br />
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The duality of his group identity is instrumental to the survival of President Roslin and former President Baltar, and the failure of the Zarek-Gaeta coup d'état. Tyrol has wireless communication with Cylons, independent of ''Galactica''’s radio systems, and is thus able to arrange a Cylon-piloted rescue Raptor to meet them at a rarely-used airlock and fly them to the safety of the Basestar. ([[The Oath]]) Like the other Cylons among the colonists, Tyrol remains loyal to the established authority of President Roslin and Admiral Adama; and, like Councilman Adama, puts aside his civilian status to take up arms and counter the mutiny. Tyrol's detailed knowledge of the ship's ductwork and FTL systems enable him to bybass the mutineers and disable the drive by removing its synchronisation coil<ref>Actions shown in "Blood on the Scales". The part is identified in dialogue in "No Exit".</ref>, thus preventing Gaeta from jumping the ship away. The loyalty he instils in his former subordinates, collegues and trade unionists allow him to escape capture when discovered mid-travel. While in the FTL engine room, he discovers severe cracks in ''Galactica''’s hull. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
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Despite being well-versed in maintaining ''Galactica'''s two FTL drives and being a Final Five Cylon, Tyrol is baffled by Cylon FTL technology and defers to "Sixes, Sharons and maybe even some Leobens" to upgrade Colonial ships' drives. (A Disquiet Follows My Soul).<br />
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In connection with young Nicholas Tyrol's kidney infection, Galen learns from [[Doctor Cottle]] that the boy is the biological son of [[Brendan Costanza]]; [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally]] had secretly been sexually involved with both men concurrently prior to her marriage to Galen; she, Cottle, and Cottle's staff kept the child's parentage secret from Galen. After briefly battering Costanza to satisfy his machismo and sense of betrayal, Tyrol takes him to Nicky's hospital bed and instructs him that his first lesson in fatherhood is to stay at the boy's side until Tyrol sleeps off his alcohol binge and sobers up. (A Disquiet Follows My Soul).<br />
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Following the [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]], Tyrol brings to the attention of Adama a number of stress fractures in the hull of ''Galactica''. Adama reinstates Tyrol to active duty as a Chief Petty Officer (presumably Senior Chief, but his specific rank has never been stated orally), a position that was opened by the murder of [[Peter Laird]]. Tyrol convinces a reluctant Adm. Adama to let him utilize Cylon technology to repair and structurally enhance the ship. Adama promoted him back to his old position.<br />
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===The escape of Sharon Valerii===<br />
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After Tyrol had been supervising for a time the repairs on ''Galactica'', Sharon Valerii returned to ''Galactica'' ostensibly rescuing [[Ellen Tigh]] from the [[Cavil]] led Cylons. Tyrol immediately exposed Valerii to Admiral Adama who had her arrested for her past attack on himself, then Commander Adama, and her leadership role in New Caprica's puppet government. During the ensuing weeks Valerii was held in the brig. After the Rebel Cylons elected [[Sonja]] as their representative to the Quorum she immediately requested the extradition of Valerii to the Cylons for treason in siding with the Cavil forces in the Cylon Civil War (she went against the consensus decision of her model line to not lobotomize the Cylon Raiders). Her acts after the war started caused the deaths of thousands if not millions of Rebel Cylons. If found guilty she would be put to death. This cause great distress to Tyrol. This compelled him to visit Valerii in the brig for the first time after weeks of her incarceration. He voiced his regrets over things he said to Valerii when he discovered she was a Cylon but still unaware he was one himself. Later, there for the first time Tyrol experienced Cylon Projection, joining the projection by Valerii of their house they had intended to build on [[Picon]] and eventually the child they probably would had had. This rekindled his love for Valerii. He pleaded with President Roslin to deny extradition that was to happen the very next day. He failed. Without legal recourse and certain that the Rebel Cylons would put her to death, Tyrol, under the cover of darkness he created, assaulted an Eight during repair work on ''Galactica''. Somehow transporting the incapacitated Eight, he then sabotaged the power to the Valerii's Brig. With her cooperation she was switched for the other Eight. Tyrol had intended to just have her escape ''Galactica'' (where in particular was not revealed) by briefly impersonating Sharon "Athena" Agathon who was scheduled to go on a long range duration planet search mission. Possibly unknown to him she had viciously assaulted Athena in the pilot's head adjoining the [[Ready Room]]. However, giving his willingness to assault a random Eight to facilitate the escape of Valerii he may had seen Valerii's assault on Athena-if he knew about it-as a necessary evil. What he didn't know was Valerii's intent to abduct and escape with Hera Agathon, Athena's daughter. On the hanger deck and unknown to him she was in the equipment provisions case drugged as he helped Valerii with it onto a Raptor. After a passionate good bye (after Valerii asked Tyrol to join her but he turned it down) with the hope that they will meet again, Valerii prepared for launch. In the interim Valerii was discovered to have escaped and Admiral Adama, first through deception and then overtly tried to apprehend her by preventing her launch, prompting her to take drastic action to fly out of a closing flight pod damaging the Raptor but making it out. She then quickly jumped away from ''Galactica'' damaging her hull due to her proximity. As he was overseeing and giving orders for repairs of the damaged section he learned of the abduction by Valerii of Hera from a crewman and overhearing a distraught Athena and Helo brow beat a crewman for supposedly not noticing a three year old girl boarding a Raptor. Shocked and devastated he irrationally projected the Picon house which was empty including of his notional daughter. It emotionally shattered him, Valerii's betrayal in stealing Hera. Valerii's mission was to abduct Hera all along. The "rescue" of Ellen Tigh was part of the plot to gain credibility.([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) Later Tyrol was arrested for his hand in the escape of Sharon Valerii and her abduction of Hera Agathon. How his complicity was detected is not known. Although given his known determination to save Valerii from extradition and very likely death and his known "repair" of the power to her cell he was a natural suspect. Also, given the known Cylon ability to tell each other apart despite being identical to humans if he was seen talking to the supposed "Athena" on the hanger deck he would not able to plead ignorance and misidentification given how easily he identified Valerii when she first came aboard. Given his arrest most likely he has been stripped of his rank and responsibilities. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]] outtakes<ref>The scene depicting the arrest and jailing of Tyrol was edited out. [http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1671]</ref>)<br />
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Tyrol is released from the brig and when Admiral Adama calls for volunteers to rescue Hera, he immediately volunteers and convinces Tory Foster to as well. When ''Galactica'' jumps to the battle, he mans the FTL console and is the one to jump the ship to the Colony, but he remains with Ellen and Anders afterwards. Later, after the Five offer to give Cavil back resurrection in exchange for giving them back Hera and leaving humanity alone, Tyrol and the other members of the Five combine together through Anders' Hybrid tank to retrieve the secret of resurrection which they each hold a piece of, and Tyrol and the others see at least some of each others memories. When Tyrol sees Tory killing Cally and realizes the truth, he flies into a rage, breaks the download and strangles Tory and breaks her neck, killing her. Later on the Colonials new homeworld, he decides to move to an island with no people on it and live out the rest of his days as a hermit, having grown tired of people, both human and Cylon. <br />
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From the description "it's an island, off one of the northern continents. It's cold, it's up in the highlands" his intended place of residence may be modern-day Scotland; however, in historical fact sea levels 150,000 years ago were different and Britain was not then an island, being connected to the European mainland.<br />
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== Attitudes toward humans ==<br />
After his self discovery as a Cylon and his almost suicidal depression over it, he seems to have accepted it but is still struggling in coming to terms with what it exactly means. He has expressed himself as a Cylon and represented their point of view in discussions with Admiral Adama including lobbying for Cylon citizenship and delegate representation in the Fleet. ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). However, he still has a strong loyalty to the humans and ''Galactica'', siding with the Loyalist during the mutiny and was instrumental in getting President Roslin and Gaius Baltar off the ship in which they subsequently reached the safety of the Baseship. ([[The Oath]]) He also prevented the ''Galactica'' from jumping away from the baseship and the ships who followed Roslin's orders. ([[Blood on the Scales]]) After discovering serious structural damage to the ship, he has accepted a request to become Chief of Engineering again from Admiral Adama who he is fiercely loyal to in particular. He has offered to use Cylon technology to help strengthen her hull. After an initial refusal from Adama the Admiral changed his mind and accepted Tyrol's offer. He looks on the saving the humans from the Cylon Centurions during the first Cylon War as a positive that he and the other Five should be given credit for it ([[No Exit]]) but he has never uttered an anti-human word. However, he has been told of his history on Earth and since then second handedly. Unlike [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Samuel Anders]] and like [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] he has no first hand self recollection of his true history. It is not known if his strongly pro-human attitude will change if he ever does, but Anders's recitation of events including him helping stopping the First Cylon War against the humans 40 years ago it maybe favorable if he does recover his true memory.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*On the [http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/56725.html?thread=253077#t253077 Aaron Douglas Live Journal Community], Aaron Douglas told fans that he is "Number 12", which he got to choose. This comment seems to be made invalid by [[Ron D. Moore]]'s statement that the Final Five do not have model numbers like the other seven humanoid Cylons.<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant.aspx?id=20080611|title=Rants & Reviews - Live at the "Battlestar Galactica" Midseason Finale Premiere|date=11 June 2008|accessdate=13 June 2008|last=Sullivan|first=Brian Ford|format=|language=}}</ref><br />
*[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen]] is the name of a famed Greek doctor, who was first to argue that the mind was in the brain, not the heart. This may be construed as irony, given Tyrol's part in the ongoing story.<br />
*Tyrol's first name, Galen, was first revealed in Ron D. Moore's blog during Season 1, but it is not mentioned on screen until the Season 2 episode "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".<br />
*While it may be a coincidence, Tyrol's forename, Galen, is one of the series' many homages (intentional or otherwise) to the ''[[Wikipedia:Planet of the Apes|Planet of the Apes]]'' franchise. Galen was the name of [[Wikipedia:Roddy McDowall|Roddy McDowall]]'s character in [[Wikipedia:Planet of the Apes (TV series)|the 1974 television series]] which, like ''Battlestar Galactica'', featured human military astronauts surveying post-apocalyptic Earth. (''See also'' [[Gaius Baltar#Notes|Baltar's forename & roles]], the [[Revelations#Earth|end of "Revelations"]], [[Leoben Conoy]] [[Sometimes a Great Notion#Noteworthy Dialogue|quoting Dr. Zaius]] in "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]", the two hybrids' characterisation of [[Kara Thrace]] as "[[The Destiny#The Hybrids' Warnings|The harbinger of death]]", ''inter alia'').<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Tyrol|Tyrol]] (or Tirol) is the name of a region divided between western Austria and northern Italy.<br />
*Ron Moore explains in the DVD commentary for the [[Miniseries]] that Chief Tyrol was originally supposed to be a fairly small role, and in the first script of the Miniseries he only had about 15 lines. However, Aaron Douglas was so good at ad libbing new lines for scenes as production moved forward that Moore kept writing him into a bigger character. Going into Season 1, Tyrol would originally have been defined by his relationship to Boomer, with suspicion that she might be a Cylon only coming out towards the end of the season. However, instead of this, Boomer and Tyrol's relationship becomes strained and ends early in Season 1, with Tyrol being expanded to a character that is not defined solely by Boomer.<br />
*The revelations of "[[No Exit]]" may answer how he was able to sense the Temple of Five: it was built by the Thirteenth Tribe and the Final Five visited it on their way to the Twelve Colonies. Tyrol's blocked Cylon memories may have subconsciously guided him there as he did know its location in the blocked memories.<br />
*The podcast for "[[Daybreak, Part II]]" confirms that Tyrol settled in Scotland, and there were people already living there. Tyrol became the 'Tribal King of the Scots', apparently due to Aaron Douglas' great enthusiasm for the idea. Ronald D. Moore is presumably being flippant by suggesting that all Scots (a people noted for a tradition of great engineers) are descended from Tyrol. Subsequent ice ages would have likely either wiped out any population in Scotland and the British Isles from this time or forced them to flee south.<br />
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=== Rank Notes ===<br />
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Tyrol was originally and currently a [[wikipedia:Senior Chief Petty Officer|Senior Chief Petty Officer]]<ref name="rank_status"/> then demoted to [[wikipedia:Specialist (rank)|Specialist]] in "[[Escape Velocity]]". Tyrol was put into inactivation after his discovery as a Cylon in "[[Revelations]]". He was made Senior Chief Petty Officer once again in "[[No Exit]]". However, he has been placed under arrest for his role in the escape of [[Sharon Valerii]] and her abduction of [[Hera Agathon]].<br />
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'''Samuel T. "Longshot" Anders''' is a [[rook]] Viper pilot aboard ''Galactica'' and husband to Captain [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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On Caprica, Anders was a sports hero, having been captain of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. After the Cylon occupartion, he became leader of the human resistance, until he is recued by his future wife. [[Crossroads, Part II|Late]], he becomes aware of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as one of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] "[[Final Five]]".<br />
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After suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the base of his brain the memories of his life as a Cylon on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] were restored. He tried in the limit amount of time before essential surgery to relay the history of the Final Five to fellow Cylons [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. After a failed attempt to jump start his brain via a [[datastream]] and Hybrid tank installed on ''Galactica'', he began to act very much like a Hybrid and he has begun electrically interacting with ''Galactica''. He has effectively become ''Galactica'''s [[Hybrid]]. He dies when under Admiral Adama's orders, he flies ''Galactica'' and her fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships.<br />
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During his life on earth, he also composed [[The Music|a song]] identical to the modern "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. This song has also been arrived at by [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Hera Agathon]] independently, pointing towards the characters being linked (with Bob Dylan) to the same "ethereal source".<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Life on Earth===<br />
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Samuel was born into the Cylon [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on Earth over 2,000 years ago. He worked at a scientific research facility, and also composed [[The Music|a song]] which he played for his lover and for his fellow researchers, [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]<ref>In his "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" podcast commentary, Ronald D. Moore explained that in the Battlestar universe Anders (not Bob Dylan) wrote the song, but acknowledged that they failed to adequatly get that point across to the audience.</ref>. Warned of a coming holocaust by [[Virtual beings#The Final Five's Virtual Beings|an image of a woman]] no one else could see, he worked with his four friends to recreate the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology used by their ancestors. When the nuclear attack on Earth came, the five of them were downloaded into new bodies on a ship in orbit. <br />
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Backtracking the path their ancestors used to find Earth, the five rediscovered the [[Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] and found their way to the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] to warn the humans of the dangers of making robotic slaves, but arrived too late to prevent the [[First Cylon War]] because their vessel traveled at relativistic, subliminal speeds. They designed humanoid bodies for the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] in exchange for signing a cease fire with the humans, and gave resurrection technology to their humanoid Cylon "children". They also embraced the monotheistic beliefs of the Centurions. Their first creation, [[Number One]], turned against the five and killed them by asphyxiation, then [[Boxing|boxed]] their consciousnesses, later releasing them into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories to live through the [[Cylon Attack]] as humans in the hopes of teaching them a lesson, so that they would agree with his ideologies after they were killed and resurrected again.<br />
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The background fabricated for Anders by Number One included being born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] and attending [[Noyse Elementary School]]. <br />
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===On Caprica===<br />
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He became a [[Pyramid]] player for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] and was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when Caprica was attacked during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon assault on the Colonies]]. The high-altitude shielded them from the blasts of the nuclear attacks and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ad hoc resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammunition and supplies in the hopes of surviving and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Agathon and Thrace two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Anders's main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Before leaving, Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylons' re-appropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all are astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired (Downloaded).<br />
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== Rescue and Joining the Fleet ==<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters - the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons have left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders's relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and [[Lee Adama]].<br />
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[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer available to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and becomes a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]). After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']] and Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around [[New Caprica City]]. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey Brynn]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the building ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret tribunal assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Along with [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]], he is among the more scrupulous members and soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps by obtaining a commission and joining the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot trainee]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]), initially flying Raptors before transitioning to Vipers.<br />
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== Revelation ==<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider determines that he is a Cylon and as a result the Raiders abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet, forcing the whole Cylon fleet to retreat. After the battle, he recalls his experience with the Cylon Raider to the others, and wonders whether he just made a "nugget mistake" or if he was physically incapable of firing. Anders, along with the others, agree to kill themselves before they betray the humans ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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Anders joins the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Three weeks into the mission, he questions Thrace's command style, forcing her to open up more about her mission with her crew ([[The Ties That Bind]]). A week later they encounter a damaged Heavy Raider with [[Number Two|a copy of Leoben Conoy]] aboard. Thrace allows him aboard against the crew's wishes, because she wants his help in finding Earth. When Anders sees how physically close the two are, he attacks him until Marines separate them. Later, Anders asks Conoy what he wants from Thrace. Conoy replies that he seeks to understand Thrace's [[The Destiny|unexplained destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy says otherwise and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a professional Pyramid player ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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During the mutiny aboard the ''Demetrius'' Anders sides with Thrace, going as far as to shoot [[Felix Gaeta]] in the knee to prevent him from jumping back to ''Galactica''. After accompanying Thrace to a disabled Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Anders involves himself in an execution of a [[Number Six]] model who had moments before murdered [[Jean Barolay]]. The idea of [[Natalie]] assisting to pull the trigger on another of her models disturbs him. Later into the mission, however, he consoles a dying [[Number Eight]] when [[Sharon Agathon]] fails to. He then becomes visibly worried when Thrace, Natalie and Sharon deduce that the [[Final Five]] have come from and know the way back to Earth, and propose a resurrection of the [[Number Three]] model to reveal the Five's identities ([[Faith]]). Back on ''Galactica'', Anders is distraught over the loss of Gaeta's leg, talking of how Gaeta [[Gaeta's Lament|sings]] all the time to cope with his pain, but can't bring himself to talk to Gaeta about it ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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During a confrontation with their erstwhile Cylon allies — now lead by the unboxed [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] — interim President Lee Adama forcefully persuades Colonel Tigh to give up the identities of the other Final Five aboard ''Galactica'', the safety of the Fleet hanging on it. Anders is arrested along with Tyrol, and they join Tigh in the launch tube airlock, under threat of being spaced in the showdown. Just as Adama is about to follow through on his threat, Thrace averts the execution with news that the three Cylons have given them the way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Anders and his fellow Cylons unexpectedly receive a full amnesty from President Adama, and are part of the landing party that finds Earth in a post-apocalyptic state ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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On the devastated Earth, Anders discovers a guitar neck. Handling it, he remembers performing "[[The Music|All Along the Watchtower]]" for his lover, as well as his other friends ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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When [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]] enact a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup]] to overthrow the fleet's [[William Adama|military]] and [[Laura Roslin|civilian]] leadership, Anders is abducted by his former wingman [[Diana Seelix]] and several co-conspirators and taken to the specially designed Cylon holding cell to be held as a hostage ([[The Oath]]). During a rescue attempt staged by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders suffers a bullet wound to the back of the neck<ref>This injury was written into the show after Michael Trucco was involved in a near-fatal car accident during the halt in production observed during the 2007 writers strike. The accident left Trucco with a prominent scar stretching the entire length of the back of his neck.</ref> and has to be carried to sickbay by Thrace and [[Romo Lampkin]] ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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The bullet entered his head, but in doing so it also unlocked previously inaccessible memories of his past. Although he suffers through a steadily worsening bout of [[w:Aphasia|Aphasia]] ("word salad"), he explains some of what he learns from his memories, elaborating on the history of the Final Five and their betrayal by their first creation, Number One, otherwise known as [[John Cavil]]. Before Anders can explain any more, he is taken to surgery to have the bullet removed so he does not suffer another seizure and die of a potential brain hemorrhage. He refuses treatment, fearing he may lose his restored memories, but Kara Thrace, still being his lawful wife, orders Dr. Cottle to remove the bullet anyway. The bullet is safely removed, but when Anders doesn't wake up as soon as expected an EEG is run on him. It is discovered he has almost no brain activity ([[No Exit]]). He is visited by [[Ellen Tigh]] when she returns aboard ''[[Galactica]],'' and when a referendum is tabled among the Final Five as to whether they should say with the fleet or strike out on their own, Saul Tigh votes "stay" on Anders' behalf, citing his ranting warning to the Five as he was being wheeled into the OR: "stay with the fleet" ([[Deadlock]]). When Thrace visits him some time later his eyes are seen to be open and there is a flurry of brainwave activity seen on the monitors around his bedside, though he does not show any signs of cognitive function just yet. An Eight by Ander's bedside (not Athena) surmises that his brain may simply be "rebooting," and using the downtime to repair itself. Dr. Cottle is dismissive of this idea. However, the eight also suggest inserting Anders into the datastream to jump start his brain. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).<br />
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Later, acting on the Eight's idea the Cylons immerse him in a Hybrid pool much like those on Cylon baseships and connect him to both the [[datastream]]. While connected to the stream he begins mimicking the mannerisms of the baseship [[Hybrid]]s, down to the incoherent (to casual observers) but prophetic ramblings. His wife Captain Kara Thrace visits him and request to be alone with him. Saying her goodbyes she attempts to kill him by gunshot to the head. Anders in reflex action catches and almost crushes Thrace's forearm and tells her as another Basestar Hybrid had that she is the Harbinger of Death. As he does so power fluctuations, that has been going on for sometime on Galactica grow much worse, including the surging power levels of the main engines. Anders releases Thrace and the power fluctuations subside but do not end. Thrace presumably called the Cylons and Col. Tigh to assess the situation. It is determined that Anders is directly interacting with and ''Galactica''’s power grid, inadvertently (but not the firewalled computers) via the Cylon organic resin applied to her superstructure for repair purposes. It is theoretically possible for Anders to jump the ship on his own just like a Hybrid on a Baseship. Anders has effectively become the Hybrid of ''Galactica''. Col. Tigh orders that he be disconnected. Just before he is he says "All this has happened before, and will happen again..." Removed from the datastream, Anders reverts to his comatose state. Later Kara Thrace once again visits her husband, accepting that the "old Anders" is never coming back, but she believes there is a patter in the drawing by Hera Agathon that Hera gave her that turned out to be musical notes for a song Thrace's father played for her as a child. She is determined to get answers from Hybrid Anders and reconnects him to talk to him. When he is plugged back in by [[Kara Thrace]] the power surges briefly return but then subside to nothing and Samuel Anders vocalizes the line of code "New command" ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]). It is not known for sure as of that episode that Anders will recover or not. His wife has taken the position that he will not and has accepted that as fact.<br />
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When he is visited again by Thrace and Admiral Adama he subconsciously flashes back to his time on Caprica as captain of the Buccaneers. He remembers an instance when he was in his team's locker room just after a game being interviewed by a sports reporter. The woman questions him on whether or not he would feel his career would be complete if he retired without ever leading the Buccaneers to a championship. Anders candidly responds by telling the reporter that in actuality, he cares little for the fame and the glamor associated with the game and more for the subtler aspects of it often missed amid the glitz. He speaks of his passion for experiencing "the perfection of creation" through his plays and movements, relating the sport to more mathematical concepts like physics; a brief moment where Samuel Anders the inventor broke through the cover of Samuel Anders the sports star ([[Daybreak, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders is instrumental in the attack on [[The Colony]], confusing its Hybrid at a crucial moment and disabling all the weapons. He is later present when [[Caprica|Caprica Six]] and [[Baltar]] return to the CIC with [[Hera]] and fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]]. After the successful return of ''Galactica'' to the new planet, Adama has him pilot the fleet and all their technology into the sun in order to have them start over. Before he dies, he briefly flashes back to his interview prior to the fall, and Kara says a tearful goodbye to him, returning to him her dog tags and telling him that she loves him. He whispers "I'll see you on the other side," paralleling Kara's final words to [[Lee Adama]] when she died. ([[Daybreak, Part II]], [[Maelstrom]]). After all of the ships are abandoned, Anders pilots the ships into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and her Fleet. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], his death is permanent.<br />
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==Attitudes toward humans==<br />
Despite his revelation to himself as a Cylon and his acceptance of it and the beating he endured during the mutiny, he seems to have remained loyal to the humans. After his discovery of his Cylon nature but before he recovered his first hand memories of his life before he was killed by Cavil and had his memories fabricated, he has displayed no hostility to them as a whole and in fact seems to be understanding of their point of view. This is characteristic of his sense of justice even when he was a Resistance fighter when he quickly accepted the Cylon Caprica Sharon, the future [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], as genuinely fighting on the human's side. After the Exodus from [[New Caprica]] he did participate in the secret trials and executions of those thought to be collaborators but he soon lost his taste for revenge and decline to participate any longer. It is not known if he has ever uttered a statement that could be construed as anti-human. Indeed, just before beaten by mutinous crewmen that [[Diana Seelix]] had arranged to ambush him, he was apologetic for any misunderstanding of a romantic nature between them. ([[The Oath]]) Now that he has recovered his first hand memories of his previous life on Earth and since then, it is not known what would be his attitude toward the humans if he recovers from his vegetative state, but given his and the other Final Five's efforts to halt the Cylon attack on the Colonies during the first Cylon War and describing the genocidal Cavil's morality as twisted ([[No Exit]]) it seems to be favorable.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' also has a character named Anders. Like Sam, he was a machine who imitated humans almost perfectly. The PKD character was discovered and "retired" by human authorities, much like what almost happened to Sam in [[Revelations]] and [[The Oath]].<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Seasons 3 and 4 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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*There was a human character with the surname Anders, callsign [["Jolly" Anders|Jolly]], in the [[Miniseries]], but the two characters cannot be related.<br />
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'''Samuel T. "Longshot" Anders''' is a [[rook]] Viper pilot aboard ''Galactica'' and husband to Captain [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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On Caprica, Anders was a sports hero, having been captain of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. After the Cylon occupartion, he became leader of the human resistance, until he is recued by his future wife. [[Crossroads, Part II|Late]], he becomes aware of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as one of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] "[[Final Five]]".<br />
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After suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the base of his brain the memories of his life as a Cylon on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] were restored. He tried in the limit amount of time before essential surgery to relay the history of the Final Five to fellow Cylons [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. After a failed attempt to jump start his brain via a [[datastream]] and Hybrid tank installed on ''Galactica'', he began to act very much like a Hybrid and he has begun electrically interacting with ''Galactica''. He has effectively become ''Galactica'''s [[Hybrid]]. He dies when under Admiral Adama's orders, he flies ''Galactica'' and her fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships.<br />
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During his life on earth, he also composed [[The Music|a song]] identical to the modern "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. This song has also been arrived at by [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Hera Agathon]] independently, pointing towards the characters being linked (with Bob Dylan) to the same "ethereal source".<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Life on Earth===<br />
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Samuel was born into the Cylon [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on Earth over 2,000 years ago. He worked at a scientific research facility, and also composed [[The Music|a song]] which he played for his lover and for his fellow researchers, [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]<ref>In his "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" podcast commentary, Ronald D. Moore explained that in the Battlestar universe Anders (not Bob Dylan) wrote the song, but acknowledged that they failed to adequatly get that point across to the audience.</ref>. Warned of a coming holocaust by [[Virtual beings#The Final Five's Virtual Beings|an image of a woman]] no one else could see, he worked with his four friends to recreate the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology used by their ancestors. When the nuclear attack on Earth came, the five of them were downloaded into new bodies on a ship in orbit. <br />
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Backtracking the path their ancestors used to find Earth, the five rediscovered the [[Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] and found their way to the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] to warn the humans of the dangers of making robotic slaves, but arrived too late to prevent the [[First Cylon War]] because their vessel traveled at relativistic, subliminal speeds. They designed humanoid bodies for the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] in exchange for signing a cease fire with the humans, and gave resurrection technology to their humanoid Cylon "children". They also embraced the monotheistic beliefs of the Centurions. Their first creation, [[Number One]], turned against the five and killed them by asphyxiation, then [[Boxing|boxed]] their consciousnesses, later releasing them into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories to live through the [[Cylon Attack]] as humans in the hopes of teaching them a lesson, so that they would agree with his ideologies after they were killed and resurrected again.<br />
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The background fabricated for Anders by Number One included being born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] and attending [[Noyse Elementary School]]. <br />
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===On Caprica===<br />
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He became a [[Pyramid]] player for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] and was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when Caprica was attacked during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon assault on the Colonies]]. The high-altitude shielded them from the blasts of the nuclear attacks and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ad hoc resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammunition and supplies in the hopes of surviving and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Agathon and Thrace two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Anders's main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Before leaving, Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylons' re-appropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all are astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired (Downloaded).<br />
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== Rescue and Joining the Fleet ==<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters - the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons have left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders's relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and [[Lee Adama]].<br />
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[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer available to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and becomes a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]). After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']] and Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around [[New Caprica City]]. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey Brynn]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the building ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret tribunal assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Along with [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]], he is among the more scrupulous members and soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps by obtaining a commission and joining the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot trainee]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]), initially flying Raptors before transitioning to Vipers.<br />
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== Revelation ==<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider determines that he is a Cylon and as a result the Raiders abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet, forcing the whole Cylon fleet to retreat. After the battle, he recalls his experience with the Cylon Raider to the others, and wonders whether he just made a "nugget mistake" or if he was physically incapable of firing. Anders, along with the others, agree to kill themselves before they betray the humans ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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Anders joins the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Three weeks into the mission, he questions Thrace's command style, forcing her to open up more about her mission with her crew ([[The Ties That Bind]]). A week later they encounter a damaged Heavy Raider with [[Number Two|a copy of Leoben Conoy]] aboard. Thrace allows him aboard against the crew's wishes, because she wants his help in finding Earth. When Anders sees how physically close the two are, he attacks him until Marines separate them. Later, Anders asks Conoy what he wants from Thrace. Conoy replies that he seeks to understand Thrace's [[The Destiny|unexplained destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy says otherwise and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a professional Pyramid player ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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During the mutiny aboard the ''Demetrius'' Anders sides with Thrace, going as far as to shoot [[Felix Gaeta]] in the knee to prevent him from jumping back to ''Galactica''. After accompanying Thrace to a disabled Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Anders involves himself in an execution of a [[Number Six]] model who had moments before murdered [[Jean Barolay]]. The idea of [[Natalie]] assisting to pull the trigger on another of her models disturbs him. Later into the mission, however, he consoles a dying [[Number Eight]] when [[Sharon Agathon]] fails to. He then becomes visibly worried when Thrace, Natalie and Sharon deduce that the [[Final Five]] have come from and know the way back to Earth, and propose a resurrection of the [[Number Three]] model to reveal the Five's identities ([[Faith]]). Back on ''Galactica'', Anders is distraught over the loss of Gaeta's leg, talking of how Gaeta [[Gaeta's Lament|sings]] all the time to cope with his pain, but can't bring himself to talk to Gaeta about it ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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During a confrontation with their erstwhile Cylon allies — now lead by the unboxed [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] — interim President Lee Adama forcefully persuades Colonel Tigh to give up the identities of the other Final Five aboard ''Galactica'', the safety of the Fleet hanging on it. Anders is arrested along with Tyrol, and they join Tigh in the launch tube airlock, under threat of being spaced in the showdown. Just as Adama is about to follow through on his threat, Thrace averts the execution with news that the three Cylons have given them the way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Anders and his fellow Cylons unexpectedly receive a full amnesty from President Adama, and are part of the landing party that finds Earth in a post-apocalyptic state ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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On the devastated Earth, Anders discovers a guitar neck. Handling it, he remembers performing "[[The Music|All Along the Watchtower]]" for his lover, as well as his other friends ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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When [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]] enact a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup]] to overthrow the fleet's [[William Adama|military]] and [[Laura Roslin|civilian]] leadership, Anders is abducted by his former wingman [[Diana Seelix]] and several co-conspirators and taken to the specially designed Cylon holding cell to be held as a hostage ([[The Oath]]). During a rescue attempt staged by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders suffers a bullet wound to the back of the neck<ref>This injury was written into the show after Michael Trucco was involved in a near-fatal car accident during the halt in production observed during the 2007 writers strike. The accident left Trucco with a prominent scar stretching the entire length of the back of his neck.</ref> and has to be carried to sickbay by Thrace and [[Romo Lampkin]] ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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The bullet entered his head, but in doing so it also unlocked previously inaccessible memories of his past. Although he suffers through a steadily worsening bout of [[w:Aphasia|Aphasia]] ("word salad"), he explains some of what he learns from his memories, elaborating on the history of the Final Five and their betrayal by their first creation, Number One, otherwise known as [[John Cavil]]. Before Anders can explain any more, he is taken to surgery to have the bullet removed so he does not suffer another seizure and die of a potential brain hemorrhage. He refuses treatment, fearing he may lose his restored memories, but Kara Thrace, still being his lawful wife, orders Dr. Cottle to remove the bullet anyway. The bullet is safely removed, but when Anders doesn't wake up as soon as expected an EEG is run on him. It is discovered he has almost no brain activity ([[No Exit]]). He is visited by [[Ellen Tigh]] when she returns aboard ''[[Galactica]],'' and when a referendum is tabled among the Final Five as to whether they should say with the fleet or strike out on their own, Saul Tigh votes "stay" on Anders' behalf, citing his ranting warning to the Five as he was being wheeled into the OR: "stay with the fleet" ([[Deadlock]]). When Thrace visits him some time later his eyes are seen to be open and there is a flurry of brainwave activity seen on the monitors around his bedside, though he does not show any signs of cognitive function just yet. An Eight by Ander's bedside (not Athena) surmises that his brain may simply be "rebooting," and using the downtime to repair itself. Dr. Cottle is dismissive of this idea. However, the eight also suggest inserting Anders into the datastream to jump start his brain. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).<br />
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Later, acting on the Eight's idea the Cylons immerse him in a Hybrid pool much like those on Cylon baseships and connect him to both the [[datastream]]. While connected to the stream he begins mimicking the mannerisms of the baseship [[Hybrid]]s, down to the incoherent (to casual observers) but prophetic ramblings. His wife Captain Kara Thrace visits him and request to be alone with him. Saying her goodbyes she attempts to kill him by gunshot to the head. Anders in reflex action catches and almost crushes Thrace's forearm and tells her as another Basestar Hybrid had that she is the Harbinger of Death. As he does so power fluctuations, that has been going on for sometime on Galactica grow much worse, including the surging power levels of the main engines. Anders releases Thrace and the power fluctuations subside but do not end. Thrace presumably called the Cylons and Col. Tigh to assess the situation. It is determined that Anders is directly interacting with and ''Galactica''’s power grid, inadvertently (but not the firewalled computers) via the Cylon organic resin applied to her superstructure for repair purposes. It is theoretically possible for Anders to jump the ship on his own just like a Hybrid on a Baseship. Anders has effectively become the Hybrid of ''Galactica''. Col. Tigh orders that he be disconnected. Just before he is he says "All this has happened before, and will happen again..." Removed from the datastream, Anders reverts to his comatose state. Later Kara Thrace once again visits her husband, accepting that the "old Anders" is never coming back, but she believes there is a patter in the drawing by Hera Agathon that Hera gave her that turned out to be musical notes for a song Thrace's father played for her as a child. She is determined to get answers from Hybrid Anders and reconnects him to talk to him. When he is plugged back in by [[Kara Thrace]] the power surges briefly return but then subside to nothing and Samuel Anders vocalizes the line of code "New command" ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]). It is not known for sure as of that episode that Anders will recover or not. His wife has taken the position that he will not and has accepted that as fact.<br />
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When he is visited again by Thrace and Admiral Adama he subconsciously flashes back to his time on Caprica as captain of the Buccaneers. He remembers an instance when he was in his team's locker room just after a game being interviewed by a sports reporter. The woman questions him on whether or not he would feel his career would be complete if he retired without ever leading the Buccaneers to a championship. Anders candidly responds by telling the reporter that in actuality, he cares little for the fame and the glamor associated with the game and more for the subtler aspects of it often missed amid the glitz. He speaks of his passion for experiencing "the perfection of creation" through his plays and movements, relating the sport to more mathematical concepts like physics; a brief moment where Samuel Anders the inventor broke through the cover of Samuel Anders the sports star ([[Daybreak, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders is instrumental in the attack on [[The Colony]], confusing its Hybrid at a crucial moment and disabling all the weapons. He is later present when [[Caprica|Caprica Six]] and [[Baltar]] return to the CIC with [[Hera]] and fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]]. After the successful return of ''Galactica'' to the new planet, Adama has him pilot the fleet and all their technology into the sun in order to have them start over. Before he dies, he briefly flashes back to his interview prior to the fall, and Kara says a tearful goodbye to him, returning to him her dog tags and telling him that she loves him. He whispers "I'll see you on the other side," paralleling Kara's final words to [[Lee Adama]] when she died. ([[Daybreak, Part II]], [[Maelstrom]]). After all of the ships are abandoned, Anders pilots the ships into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and her Fleet. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], his death is permanent.<br />
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==Attitudes toward humans==<br />
Despite his revelation to himself as a Cylon and his acceptance of it and the beating he endured during the mutiny, he seems to have remained loyal to the humans. After his discovery of his Cylon nature but before he recovered his first hand memories of his life before he was killed by Cavil and had his memories fabricated, he has displayed no hostility to them as a whole and in fact seems to be understanding of their point of view. This is characteristic of his sense of justice even when he was a Resistance fighter when he quickly accepted the Cylon Caprica Sharon, the future [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], as genuinely fighting on the human's side. After the Exodus from [[New Caprica]] he did participate in the secret trials and executions of those thought to be collaborators but he soon lost his taste for revenge and decline to participate any longer. It is not known if he has ever uttered a statement that could be construed as anti-human. Indeed, just before beaten by mutinous crewmen that [[Diana Seelix]] had arranged to ambush him, he was apologetic for any misunderstanding of a romantic nature between them. ([[The Oath]]) Now that he has recovered his first hand memories of his previous life on Earth and since then, it is not known what would be his attitude toward the humans if he recovers from his vegetative state, but given his and the other Final Five's efforts to halt the Cylon attack on the Colonies during the first Cylon War and describing the genocidal Cavil's morality as twisted ([[No Exit]]) it seems to be favorable.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' also has a character named Anders. Like Sam, he was a machine who imitated humans almost perfectly. The PKD character was discovered and "retired" by human authorities, much like what almost happened to Sam in [[Revelations]] and [[The Oath]].<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Seasons 3 and 4 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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*There was a human character with the surname Anders, callsign [["Jolly" Anders|Jolly]], in the [[Miniseries]], but the two characters cannot be related.<br />
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'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Past as one of the Final Five ===<br />
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Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
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She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
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Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
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=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
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[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
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When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
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Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
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=== Revelation as a Cylon ===<br />
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Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
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Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
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As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
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She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
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Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
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She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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|photo= Tory Foster.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= The Captain's Hand<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br>suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>Neck broken by [[Galen Tyrol]] 4 ACH<br />
|parents= <br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Formerly romantically involved with Galen Tyron on Original Earth<br />
|role= [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar cultist]];<br>Presidential Chief of Staff;<br>[[New Caprica]] schoolteacher;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
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|actor= [[Rekha Sharma]]<br />
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'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Past as one of the Final Five ===<br />
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Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
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She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
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Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
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=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
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[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
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When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
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Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
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=== Revelation as a Cylon ===<br />
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Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
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Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
<br />
As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
<br />
She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
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Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
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She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Samuel Anders.jpg<br />
|age=2,000+<br />
|colony=[[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= Longshot<br />
|seen= Resistance (episode)<br />
|pseen= Resistance<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit)<br><br />
Suffocated by Number One, c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories)<br>flies into the Sun with the fleet, 4 ACH<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
|role=''Galactica''’s [[Hybrid]];<br>Rookie [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot;<br>[[New Caprica Resistance]] fighter;<br>[[Caprica Resistance]] leader;<br>Professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player;<br/>[[Resurrection (RDM)|Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= Ensign<br />
|actor=[[Michael Trucco]]<br />
|5cylon=y<br />
|name= Samuel T. Anders<br />
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'''Samuel T. "Longshot" Anders''' is a [[rook]] Viper pilot aboard ''Galactica'' and husband to Captain [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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On Caprica, Anders was a sports hero, having been captain of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. After the Cylon occupartion, he became leader of the human resistance, until he is recued by his future wife. [[Crossroads, Part II|Late]], he becomes aware of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as one of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] "[[Final Five]]".<br />
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After suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the base of his brain the memories of his life as a Cylon on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] were restored. He tried in the limit amount of time before essential surgery to relay the history of the Final Five to fellow Cylons [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. After a failed attempt to jump start his brain via a [[datastream]] and Hybrid tank installed on ''Galactica'', he began to act very much like a Hybrid and he has begun electrically interacting with ''Galactica''. He has effectively become ''Galactica'''s [[Hybrid]]. He dies when under Admiral Adama's orders, he flies ''Galactica'' and her fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships.<br />
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During his life on earth, he also composed [[The Music|a song]] identical to the modern "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. This song has also been arrived at by [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Hera Agathon]] independently, pointing towards the characters being linked (with Bob Dylan) to the same "ethereal source".<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Life on Earth===<br />
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Samuel was born into the Cylon [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on Earth over 2,000 years ago. He worked at a scientific research facility, and also composed [[The Music|a song]] which he played for his lover and for his fellow researchers, [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]<ref>In his "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" podcast commentary, Ronald D. Moore explained that in the Battlestar universe Anders (not Bob Dylan) wrote the song, but acknowledged that they failed to adequatly get that point across to the audience.</ref>. Warned of a coming holocaust by [[Virtual beings#The Final Five's Virtual Beings|an image of a woman]] no one else could see, he worked with his four friends to recreate the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology used by their ancestors. When the nuclear attack on Earth came, the five of them were downloaded into new bodies on a ship in orbit. <br />
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Backtracking the path their ancestors used to find Earth, the five rediscovered the [[Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] and found their way to the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] to warn the humans of the dangers of making robotic slaves, but arrived too late to prevent the [[First Cylon War]] because their vessel traveled at relativistic, subliminal speeds. They designed humanoid bodies for the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] in exchange for signing a cease fire with the humans, and gave resurrection technology to their humanoid Cylon "children". They also embraced the monotheistic beliefs of the Centurions. Their first creation, [[Number One]], turned against the five and killed them by asphyxiation, then [[Boxing|boxed]] their consciousnesses, later releasing them into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories to live through the [[Cylon Attack]] as humans in the hopes of teaching them a lesson, so that they would agree with his ideologies after they were killed and resurrected again.<br />
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The background fabricated for Anders by Number One included being born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] and attending [[Noyse Elementary School]]. <br />
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===On Caprica===<br />
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He became a [[Pyramid]] player for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] and was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when Caprica was attacked during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon assault on the Colonies]]. The high-altitude shielded them from the blasts of the nuclear attacks and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ad hoc resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammunition and supplies in the hopes of surviving and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Agathon and Thrace two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Anders's main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Before leaving, Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylons' re-appropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all are astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired (Downloaded).<br />
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== Rescue and Joining the Fleet ==<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters - the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons have left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders's relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and [[Lee Adama]].<br />
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[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer available to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and becomes a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]). After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']] and Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around [[New Caprica City]]. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey Brynn]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the building ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret tribunal assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Along with [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]], he is among the more scrupulous members and soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps by obtaining a commission and joining the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot trainee]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]), initially flying Raptors before transitioning to Vipers.<br />
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== Revelation ==<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider determines that he is a Cylon and as a result the Raiders abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet, forcing the whole Cylon fleet to retreat. After the battle, he recalls his experience with the Cylon Raider to the others, and wonders whether he just made a "nugget mistake" or if he was physically incapable of firing. Anders, along with the others, agree to kill themselves before they betray the humans ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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Anders joins the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Three weeks into the mission, he questions Thrace's command style, forcing her to open up more about her mission with her crew ([[The Ties That Bind]]). A week later they encounter a damaged Heavy Raider with [[Number Two|a copy of Leoben Conoy]] aboard. Thrace allows him aboard against the crew's wishes, because she wants his help in finding Earth. When Anders sees how physically close the two are, he attacks him until Marines separate them. Later, Anders asks Conoy what he wants from Thrace. Conoy replies that he seeks to understand Thrace's [[The Destiny|unexplained destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy says otherwise and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a professional Pyramid player ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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During the mutiny aboard the ''Demetrius'' Anders sides with Thrace, going as far as to shoot [[Felix Gaeta]] in the knee to prevent him from jumping back to ''Galactica''. After accompanying Thrace to a disabled Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Anders involves himself in an execution of a [[Number Six]] model who had moments before murdered [[Jean Barolay]]. The idea of [[Natalie]] assisting to pull the trigger on another of her models disturbs him. Later into the mission, however, he consoles a dying [[Number Eight]] when [[Sharon Agathon]] fails to. He then becomes visibly worried when Thrace, Natalie and Sharon deduce that the [[Final Five]] have come from and know the way back to Earth, and propose a resurrection of the [[Number Three]] model to reveal the Five's identities ([[Faith]]). Back on ''Galactica'', Anders is distraught over the loss of Gaeta's leg, talking of how Gaeta [[Gaeta's Lament|sings]] all the time to cope with his pain, but can't bring himself to talk to Gaeta about it ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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During a confrontation with their erstwhile Cylon allies — now lead by the unboxed [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] — interim President Lee Adama forcefully persuades Colonel Tigh to give up the identities of the other Final Five aboard ''Galactica'', the safety of the Fleet hanging on it. Anders is arrested along with Tyrol, and they join Tigh in the launch tube airlock, under threat of being spaced in the showdown. Just as Adama is about to follow through on his threat, Thrace averts the execution with news that the three Cylons have given them the way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Anders and his fellow Cylons unexpectedly receive a full amnesty from President Adama, and are part of the landing party that finds Earth in a post-apocalyptic state ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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On the devastated Earth, Anders discovers a guitar neck. Handling it, he remembers performing "[[The Music|All Along the Watchtower]]" for his lover, as well as his other friends ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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When [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]] enact a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup]] to overthrow the fleet's [[William Adama|military]] and [[Laura Roslin|civilian]] leadership, Anders is abducted by his former wingman [[Diana Seelix]] and several co-conspirators and taken to the specially designed Cylon holding cell to be held as a hostage ([[The Oath]]). During a rescue attempt staged by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders suffers a bullet wound to the back of the neck<ref>This injury was written into the show after Michael Trucco was involved in a near-fatal car accident during the halt in production observed during the 2007 writers strike. The accident left Trucco with a prominent scar stretching the entire length of the back of his neck.</ref> and has to be carried to sickbay by Thrace and [[Romo Lampkin]] ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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The bullet entered his head, but in doing so it also unlocked previously inaccessible memories of his past. Although he suffers through a steadily worsening bout of [[w:Aphasia|Aphasia]] ("word salad"), he explains some of what he learns from his memories, elaborating on the history of the Final Five and their betrayal by their first creation, Number One, otherwise known as [[John Cavil]]. Before Anders can explain any more, he is taken to surgery to have the bullet removed so he does not suffer another seizure and die of a potential brain hemorrhage. He refuses treatment, fearing he may lose his restored memories, but Kara Thrace, still being his lawful wife, orders Dr. Cottle to remove the bullet anyway. The bullet is safely removed, but when Anders doesn't wake up as soon as expected an EEG is run on him. It is discovered he has almost no brain activity ([[No Exit]]). He is visited by [[Ellen Tigh]] when she returns aboard ''[[Galactica]],'' and when a referendum is tabled among the Final Five as to whether they should say with the fleet or strike out on their own, Saul Tigh votes "stay" on Anders' behalf, citing his ranting warning to the Five as he was being wheeled into the OR: "stay with the fleet" ([[Deadlock]]). When Thrace visits him some time later his eyes are seen to be open and there is a flurry of brainwave activity seen on the monitors around his bedside, though he does not show any signs of cognitive function just yet. An Eight by Ander's bedside (not Athena) surmises that his brain may simply be "rebooting," and using the downtime to repair itself. Dr. Cottle is dismissive of this idea. However, the eight also suggest inserting Anders into the datastream to jump start his brain. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).<br />
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Later, acting on the Eight's idea the Cylons immerse him in a Hybrid pool much like those on Cylon baseships and connect him to both the [[datastream]]. While connected to the stream he begins mimicking the mannerisms of the baseship [[Hybrid]]s, down to the incoherent (to casual observers) but prophetic ramblings. His wife Captain Kara Thrace visits him and request to be alone with him. Saying her goodbyes she attempts to kill him by gunshot to the head. Anders in reflex action catches and almost crushes Thrace's forearm and tells her as another Basestar Hybrid had that she is the Harbinger of Death. As he does so power fluctuations, that has been going on for sometime on Galactica grow much worse, including the surging power levels of the main engines. Anders releases Thrace and the power fluctuations subside but do not end. Thrace presumably called the Cylons and Col. Tigh to assess the situation. It is determined that Anders is directly interacting with and ''Galactica''’s power grid, inadvertently (but not the firewalled computers) via the Cylon organic resin applied to her superstructure for repair purposes. It is theoretically possible for Anders to jump the ship on his own just like a Hybrid on a Baseship. Anders has effectively become the Hybrid of ''Galactica''. Col. Tigh orders that he be disconnected. Just before he is he says "All this has happened before, and will happen again..." Removed from the datastream, Anders reverts to his comatose state. Later Kara Thrace once again visits her husband, accepting that the "old Anders" is never coming back, but she believes there is a patter in the drawing by Hera Agathon that Hera gave her that turned out to be musical notes for a song Thrace's father played for her as a child. She is determined to get answers from Hybrid Anders and reconnects him to talk to him. When he is plugged back in by [[Kara Thrace]] the power surges briefly return but then subside to nothing and Samuel Anders vocalizes the line of code "New command" ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]). It is not known for sure as of that episode that Anders will recover or not. His wife has taken the position that he will not and has accepted that as fact.<br />
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When he is visited again by Thrace and Admiral Adama he subconsciously flashes back to his time on Caprica as captain of the Buccaneers. He remembers an instance when he was in his team's locker room just after a game being interviewed by a sports reporter. The woman questions him on whether or not he would feel his career would be complete if he retired without ever leading the Buccaneers to a championship. Anders candidly responds by telling the reporter that in actuality, he cares little for the fame and the glamor associated with the game and more for the subtler aspects of it often missed amid the glitz. He speaks of his passion for experiencing "the perfection of creation" through his plays and movements, relating the sport to more mathematical concepts like physics; a brief moment where Samuel Anders the inventor broke through the cover of Samuel Anders the sports star ([[Daybreak, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders is instrumental in the attack on [[The Colony]], confusing its Hybrid at a crucial moment and disabling all the weapons. He is later present when [[Caprica|Caprica Six]] and [[Baltar]] return to the CIC with [[Hera]] and fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]]. After the successful return of ''Galactica'' to the new planet, Adama has him pilot the fleet and all their technology into the sun in order to have them start over. Before he dies, he briefly flashes back to his interview prior to the fall, and Kara says a tearful goodbye to him, returning to him her dog tags and telling him that she loves him. He whispers "I'll see you on the other side," paralleling Kara's final words to [[Lee Adama]] when she died. ([[Daybreak, Part II]], [[Maelstrom]]). After all of the ships are abandoned, Anders pilots the ships into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and her Fleet. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], his death is permanent.<br />
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==Attitudes toward humans==<br />
Despite his revelation to himself as a Cylon and his acceptance of it and the beating he endured during the mutiny, he seems to have remained loyal to the humans. After his discovery of his Cylon nature but before he recovered his first hand memories of his life before he was killed by Cavil and had his memories fabricated, he has displayed no hostility to them as a whole and in fact seems to be understanding of their point of view. This is characteristic of his sense of justice even when he was a Resistance fighter when he quickly accepted the Cylon Caprica Sharon, the future [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], as genuinely fighting on the human's side. After the Exodus from [[New Caprica]] he did participate in the secret trials and executions of those thought to be collaborators but he soon lost his taste for revenge and decline to participate any longer. It is not known if he has ever uttered a statement that could be construed as anti-human. Indeed, just before beaten by mutinous crewmen that [[Diana Seelix]] had arranged to ambush him, he was apologetic for any misunderstanding of a romantic nature between them. ([[The Oath]]) Now that he has recovered his first hand memories of his previous life on Earth and since then, it is not known what would be his attitude toward the humans if he recovers from his vegetative state, but given his and the other Final Five's efforts to halt the Cylon attack on the Colonies during the first Cylon War and describing the genocidal Cavil's morality as twisted ([[No Exit]]) it seems to be favorable.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' also has a character named Anders. Like Sam, he was a machine who imitated humans almost perfectly. The PKD character was discovered and "retired" by human authorities, much like what almost happened to Sam in [[Revelations]] and [[The Oath]].<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Seasons 3 and 4 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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*There was a human character with the surname Anders, callsign [["Jolly" Anders|Jolly]], in the [[Miniseries]], but the two characters cannot be related.<br />
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'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
=== Past as one of the Final Five ===<br />
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Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
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She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
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Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
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=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
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[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
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When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
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Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
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=== Revelation as a Cylon ===<br />
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Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
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Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
<br />
As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
<br />
She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
<br />
She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= The Captain's Hand<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit) ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories) ([[No Exit]]);<br>Neck broken by [[Galen Tyrol]] 4 ACH ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Formerly romantically involved with Galen Tyron on Original Earth<br />
|role= [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar cultist]];<br>Presidential Chief of Staff;<br>[[New Caprica]] schoolteacher;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= <br />
|actor= [[Rekha Sharma]]<br />
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|name= Tory Foster<br />
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'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== Past as one of the Final Five ===<br />
<br />
Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
<br />
She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
<br />
Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
<br />
=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
<br />
[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
<br />
When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
<br />
Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
<br />
=== Revelation as a Cylon ===<br />
<br />
Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
<br />
After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
<br />
When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
<br />
Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
<br />
As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
<br />
She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
<br />
She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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[[de:Tory Foster]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Tory_Foster&diff=178318Tory Foster2009-04-05T10:37:18Z<p>Str1977: /* Revelations */</p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Tory Foster.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= The Captain's Hand<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit) ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories) ([[No Exit]]);<br>Neck broken by [[Galen Tyrol]] 4 ACH ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents= <br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Formerly romantically involved with Galen Tyron on Original Earth<br />
|role= [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar cultist]];<br>Presidential Chief of Staff;<br>[[New Caprica]] schoolteacher;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= <br />
|actor= [[Rekha Sharma]]<br />
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|name= Tory Foster<br />
}}<br />
'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== 2000-40 years BCH ===<br />
<br />
Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
<br />
She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
<br />
Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
<br />
=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
<br />
[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
<br />
When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
<br />
Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
<br />
=== Revelation as a Cylon ===<br />
<br />
Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
<br />
After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
<br />
When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
<br />
Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
<br />
As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
<br />
She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
<br />
She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Tory Foster.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= The Captain's Hand<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH (resurrected in orbit) ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories) ([[No Exit]]);<br>Neck broken by [[Galen Tyrol]] 4 ACH ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents= <br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Formerly romantically involved with Galen Tyron on Original Earth<br />
|role= [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar cultist]];<br>Presidential Chief of Staff;<br>[[New Caprica]] schoolteacher;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= <br />
|actor= [[Rekha Sharma]]<br />
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|name= Tory Foster<br />
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'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== 2000-40 years BCH ===<br />
<br />
Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
<br />
She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
<br />
Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
<br />
=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
<br />
[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
<br />
When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
<br />
Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
<br />
=== Revelations ===<br />
<br />
Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
<br />
After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
<br />
When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
<br />
Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
<br />
During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica-Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
<br />
As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
<br />
She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
<br />
Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
<br />
She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six]] and [[Gaius Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Tory Foster.jpg<br />
|age= 2,000+<br />
|colony= [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= <br />
|seen= The Captain's Hand<br />
|death= Nuclear destruction of Original Earth, c. 2000 BCH [c. 150,000 BCE] (resurrected in orbit) ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Suffocated by [[Number One]], c. 35 BCH (resurrected with false memories) ([[No Exit]]);<br>Neck broken by [[Galen Tyrol]] c. 148,000 BCE ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents= <br />
|siblings= <br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Formerly romantically involved with Galen Tyron on Original Earth<br />
|role= [[Cult of Baltar|Baltar cultist]];<br>Presidential Chief of Staff;<br>[[New Caprica]] schoolteacher;<br>[[Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= <br />
|actor= [[Rekha Sharma]]<br />
|5cylon= y<br />
|name= Tory Foster<br />
}}<br />
'''Tory Foster''' was the Presidential Chief of Staff for [[Laura Roslin]] following the death of [[Billy Keikeya]]. It was later revealed Tory was a [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] (an identity she embraces to an extent far greater than her cohorts).<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
=== 2000-40 years BCH ===<br />
<br />
Like the other [[Final Five]] [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]], Tory is a scientist re-inventing Cylon [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology on Earth. She cohabitates with her lover, [[Galen Tyrol]]. When nuclear armageddon comes, she downloads to a resurrection ship the five had placed in orbit, having been warned of Earth's impending doom.<br />
<br />
She and her cohorts travel at relativistic but subluminal speed to warn the other Twelve Tribes (i.e., humanity) about the dangers of creating artificial life in order to avoid another revolt and horrific war. They follow the sign-posts left by the 13th Tribe, such as the [[The Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]]. Tory and the others arrive during the [[Cylon War|First Cylon War]], too late to have prevented it. They are, however, able to end the war by agreeing to help the Centurions develop [[humanoid Cylons]], a project on which the Centurions had [[Razor Flashbacks#Episode 5 The Lab|started with little success]].<br />
<br />
Tory and the other four Final Five create eight humanoid Cylons. [[Number One]] becomes jealous of the others, particularly [[Number Seven]], and dissatisfied with the body and programming the Final Five gave them. After eliminating the Number Seven line, Number One kills Tory and the other four. He controls their resurrection to repress their memories, and maroon them among the humans, unaware of their true nature. ([[No Exit]])<br />
<br />
=== Roslin's loyal aide ===<br />
<br />
[[image:Tory CaptainsHand.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Presidential Aide.]]<br />
Prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]], Tory was precinct captain for the [[Federalist Party]] in [[Delphi]] for five years, where she became proficient at taking polls ([[The Captain's Hand]]). President Roslin taps her to replace the late [[Billy Keikeya]] as Presidential Aide.<br />
<br />
When President Roslin makes the decision to keep the new-born [[Hera Agathon|Cylon/human]] baby as far away from [[Sharon Agathon]] and the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] as possible, Tory creates a list of hand picked civilians who could be trusted with the baby. In the end a civilian named [[Maya]] is selected to take custody of the child. Tory makes it very clear that the child's mother's identity must remain a secret ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
<br />
Tory later conspires with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Anastasia Dualla]] to rig the Presidential election in Roslin's favor. The ruse is uncovered and suppressed by Admiral [[William Adama|Adama]] and Lieutenant [[Gaeta]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). During the occupation of [[New Caprica]], Foster aides Roslin in compiling a list of humans who are in collusion with the Cylons. Roslin makes her responsible for ensuring the safe transport of Maya and Hera off the planet, but she fails at this task. Maya is killed trying to escape New Caprica with the child. Hera survives but is found by the Cylons ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]] & [[Exodus, Part II|II]]").<br />
<br />
Before and during the trial of ex-president [[Gaius Baltar]], she is tasked with helping Roslin assemble a tribunal to bring charges against Baltar, as well as establish security arrangements ("[[The Woman King]]", "[[The Son Also Rises]]", "[[Crossroads, Part I]]"). She demonstrates an unwillingness to aid [[Romo Lampkin]]'s defense case through initially stonewalling Lampkin's attempts to gain access to records on ''Colonial One'' ([[The Son Also Rises]]). <br />
<br />
=== Revelations ===<br />
<br />
Some time after the apparent death of [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]), Foster began a sexual relationship with Thrace's widowed husband, [[Samuel Anders]]. Roslin apparently learns of the relationship and is displeased ([[Crossroads, Part II]]). At the beginning of Baltar's trial, Foster begins to show signs of stress, possibly originating from a [[The Music|strange noise]] which she hears as the Fleet moves towards the [[Ionian nebula]]. Her lack of sleep and stress levels results in a damaging outburst to the press corps during the press conference at which Roslin discusses the return of her cancer. Roslin confronts Foster after this, threatening to replace her if she does not get back on her game ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). When the Fleet reaches the nebula, Foster (on ''Galactica'') is drawn to [[Saul Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and Samuel Anders, who also hear the now-coherent melody. Despite each of them realizing that they are [[Final Five|Cylons]], Foster and the others re-commit themselves to the Colonial cause. Foster returns to [[CIC]] and stands by Roslin, ready to aid ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
The four newly revealed Cylons try to keep their nature hidden from those around them, while trying to come to terms it. When they brainstorm ideas about the still-missing final Cylon, Colonel Tigh suggests that Foster flirt with Gaius Baltar to gain access to the knowledge he acquired while living among the Cylons. Although initially repulsed at the idea, she speaks to Baltar and is slightly captivated when he explains how he sees his new role as religious figure. Although at first she cries when eventually sleeping with him, she is further charmed when Baltar tells her that he thinks Cylons are people with feelings too ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
Foster also tries to hit on Galen Tyrol, who rebuffs her advances but is suspected of having an affair by his wife. After one of their clandestine meetings, Foster notices an open wall covering, and concludes that they have been overheard by [[Cally Tyrol]], who must have found a note by Tigh to her husband. Not long after that, she follows her to a Viper [[launch tube (RDM)|launch tube]] where Tyrol is about to kill herself and her [[Nicholas Tyrol|son]] by expelling them out of the tube into space. Foster confronts Tyrol and explains that they only recently found out they were Cylons, and that they are still the same people, as scared and confused as everyone else. Foster comforts Tyrol and takes Nicky in her arms, then suddenly strikes her, throwing her body into the air. She retrieves the launch tube key, exits the launch tube with Nicky in her arms, and uses the key to activate the launch controls. As Tyrol regains consciousness, Tory opens the outer airlock door, sending her to her death in open space ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
<br />
Foster shows no guilt over this. She appears to have embraced both being a Cylon and her own version of Baltar's teachings, allowing her to by-pass such feelings and adopt an almost [[w:hedonism|hedonistic]] approach to life. She declares herself to be "perfect", something that uneases fellow Cylons Tigh and Tyrol, and is in marked contrast to Tigh's and [[Caprica-Six]]'s guilty consciences ([[Escape Velocity]]).<br />
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After [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Downloaded Three]] is unboxed, now knowing the identities of the Final Five, and brought to ''Galactica'', Foster stays true her earlier affinity for her Cylon side. Under the pretence of bringing Laura Roslin her medication, she flies to the Cylon basestar, where she is introduced to her fellow Cylons and tells Roslin and Baltar about her true nature. During the ensuing stand off between Three and ''Galactica'' over the remaining three Cylons, she helps Three's cause by informing her of [[Lee Adama]]'s perceived weaknesses ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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When the fleet arrives at [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and discovers it is a barren world rocked by a nuclear catastrophe and once populated by Cylons, Foster and her fellow [[Final Five]] Cylons begin remembering details about their past lives on the planet. One detail she clearly remembers is how Anders used to be a musician and used to play [[The Music|a song he wrote]] for her and their friends, [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Saul Tigh|Saul]] and [[Ellen Tigh]]. She and Tyrol were also lovers at the time ([[No Exit]]).<br />
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Since being publicly identified as a member of the [[Final Five]] Cylons, Foster has taken up full time residence on board the rebel basestar, living with the [[Number Two|Twos]], [[Number Six|Sixes]] (less [[Caprica-Six]]), and [[Number Eight|Eights]] (less [[Sharon Agathon]] & [[Sharon Valerii]]). Her fellow Cylons appear to have also given her equal status in their command hierarchy, as evident by her behaviour during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. When [[Laura Roslin]] is smuggled aboard the basestar, Foster is content to abandon the fleet to its own turmoil and simply jump away to safety, a notion her fellow Cylons support. Though she repeatedly argues against involving the basestar in the counter-coup efforts, she ultimately concedes to Roslin's plan ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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During Gaeta's mutiny Sam Anders is shot in the back of the skull. When he regains consciousness he remembers his and the others former life on Earth and after. He recites the history as fast as he could to the other Final Five, including Tory Foster. Like the other Fives she was a scientist attempting to reinvent resurrection technology. To her and Galen Tyrol's mutual shock she learned that they were once lived together as lovers and were engaged to be married. ([[No Exit]]) <!-- As with the other Fives she was downloaded into an orbiting sublight spaceship orbiting the Earth after she was killed in the nuclear Holocaust between the humanoid Cylons and the recreated Cylon Centurions. The Final Five traveled to the human 12 Colonies to warn them to treat their Cylons kindly but were too late due the space vessel being only capable of traveling very near the speed of light but not having Jump technology as a result the voyage, while subjectively on a few years on the ship and barely aged, it was at least 2, 000 years to outside observes. To stop the war against the humans. The Five made the deal to help the Colonial Centurions in their efforts to create humanoid Cylons like the Five and to give them resurrection. The war stopped and the Five were successful at both creating new humanoids and resurrection. One of there creations then turned against them and to demonstrate human cruelty killed they and had their mamories blocked and false ones inserted and placed in the human population. --><br />
After Anders's apparently unsuccessful surgery (in terms of his regaining consciousness) and his comatose state, Foster urged the other Finals and Caprica-Six to leave for the baseship and leave the fleet to strike out on their own without humanity. Then Ellen Tigh the Fifth Final arrives after a so-called rescue of her from Cavil by Sharon Valerii. Arguments of the merits of staying with the fleet and leaving are exchanged and it comes to a vote Tyrol and Foster vote to leave, Tigh votes to stay. While he was presently in a coma Tyrol assumes that Anders would had voted to stay based on his emphatic plea to Col. Tigh to stay with the fleet. It made the vote a 2 to 2 deadlock with Ellen Tigh the deciding vote. At the time she didn't know how she would vote as she was also disturbed by personal revelations of the relationship between Col. Tigh and Caprica-Six. Later, born out of jealousy, resentment and vengeance over Saul Tigh having a child with Caprica-Six and the implication that he loved Caprica Six more than he ever did Ellen, Ellen voted to with Foster and Tyrol to leave humanity, making it a 3-2 result. However Caprica-Six miscarriage, brought on possibly by stress caused by an attack in Dogsville earlier and personal confrontations with Ellen Tigh over the true love of Saul Tigh. Foster like the others stay since Hera Agathon became the only hope of the Cylons. ([[Deadlock]]) <br />
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As the Five recover over the tragedy of the miscarriage, Tory commiserates with the others including a desperate Tyrol for the life of Boomer who was about to be transported for trial on the baseship. She agrees with Ellen Tigh that they cannot interfere with Cylon due process other than being witnesses. Then she was present when Kara Thrace played the song on the piano in Joe's Bar that switched them on in the nebula. She confronts Thrace as to were she learned that song. Thrace told her it was a song that her father played for her as a child. Later off screen she told them that she was playing the music notes written as a drawing by Hera Agathon. By this time Sharon Valerii had already taken Hera and escaped. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]) <br />
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She was later present with Saul Tigh, as Ellen Tigh urged the Adamas to search for Hera at the Cylon Homeworld. Kara Thrace also stresses that they should search of Hera. Tyrol, although not revealed in the aired episode, was arrested for his aid in the escape of Valerii and the abduction of Hera so he was not present. At that meeting Foster didn't render an opinion vocally but she agreed with Ellen's assertions and helps arrange the Heavy Raider reconnaissance mission after Adama gives his permission. ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]) <br />
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Ellen Tigh volunteered the Final Five to go on the mission to rescue [[Hera]], much to Tory's dismay. Tory and her Cylon siblings remained on Galactica to control Sam, who is plugged into Galatica's system. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
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She remains there for the battle, and is standing next to Sam when [[Caprica-Six|Caprica]] and [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]], rescuing Hera and seeing the Final Five. When [[Cavil]] invades Galactica's CIC to take Hera back, Tigh volunteers to give him Resurrection technology, which requires the Final Five to share their memories. The shared memories reveal to [[Tyrol]] and the others that it was Tory who killed [[Cally]]. An enraged Tyrol breaks the connection and grabs her by the throat, choking her and breaking her neck. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], her death is permanent ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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"'''Number Two'''", better known as '''Leoben Conoy''', is a [[humanoid Cylon]] first encountered at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. He fancies himself as a prophet with predilections for enlightened monotheistic religion, whereas he is more likely to sow the seeds of doubt or mis-information, weaving lies in the fabric of truth and faith.<br />
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== Ragnar Anchorage Copy ==<br />
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Number Two is first encountered at the [[Ragnar Anchorage]], where he poses as an arms dealer and calls himself Leoben Conoy. It is likely that he was assigned with the monitoring of this depot station as the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|war]] began, gaining intelligence on battlestars that visited there. Alternatively, he may have been tasked with stealing away or destroying the ammunition (or the station itself) to prevent its use by the Colonials.<br />
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Conoy is already sick from the radiation around Ragnar, suggesting he had been there for several hours before '' Galactica'''s arrival. He becomes trapped aboard the station with Commander [[William Adama|Adama]] after a warhead is accidentally detonated. As they try to find another way out of the station, Conoy reveals his true nature to Adama through conversation, initially by claiming to be something of a philosopher. Identifying Conoy as a Cylon on the point of death, Adama challenges him and learns of the Cylon's ability to transfer their consciousness to another body when dying. Only Leoben can't -- the radiation of [[Ragnar]] is interfering with his ability as he appears to collapse.<br />
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A fight ensues, during which Conoy exhibits unnatural strength and speed. Adama manages to kill him by forcing his head over a venting steam pipe and then repeatedly bludgeoning the Cylon to death with a [[flashlight]]. He then brings Conoy's lifeless body back to ''Galactica'' for further examination. Samples from this body, when burned, reveal synthetic materials -- which permit Adama, Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and Dr. [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] to deduce that the Cylons could mimic humans in appearance ([[Miniseries]]). The corpse is later stored in the ship's morgue ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
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Not long after the Fleet's first encounter with a Number Two on [[Ragnar Anchorage]], another copy is found stowing away aboard the ''[[Gemenon Traveler]]'', interrogated by [[Kara Thrace]] and eventually executed on the order of President Roslin.<br />
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This Number Two becomes infatuated with Thrace, so that he kidnaps her during the occupation of [[New Caprica]] and uses psychological torture to convince her to love him ("[[Occupation]]" through "[[Exodus, Part II]]").<br />
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==Starbuck's Virtual Leoben==<br />
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An unknown entity that takes the form of Leoben Conoy guides Kara Thrace through her past and her unresolved issues with her long-dead mother, [[Socrata Thrace]] ([[Maelstrom]]).<br />
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== Other Copies ==<br />
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[[Image:Le0ben.jpg|thumb|200px|A copy of Two on a Cylon basestar]]<br />
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Three copies of Number Two are among the group of Cylons that rescue [[Number Five|Aaron Doral]], abandoned on Ragnar by the Colonials after Dr. Baltar fingers him as a humanoid Cylon, and debrief him ([[Miniseries, Night 2]]).<br />
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The [[Caprica Resistance]] captured and interrogated their own copy of a Two, as [[Samuel Anders]] sarcastically quotes his philosophy to [[Kara Thrace]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). <br />
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A smattering of Twos are witnessed in the background of the park and cafe scenes in "[[Downloaded]]"<ref>However, these are played by a stand-in as Calum Keith Rennie was unavailable for the episode.</ref>.<br />
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Several Twos are present on the Cylon baseship that [[Gaius Baltar]] wakes up on shortly after he and the Cylons flee from New Caprica. [[Caprica-Six]] tells Baltar that his model believes the hybrid model who controls the baseship is speaking the "words of God" in her endlessly incoherent diagnostic babble ([[Torn]]).<br />
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Another Two is recovered from an infected baseship by ''Galactica''. He is going to be part of their plan to infect the entire Cylon race with the [[Lymphocytic encephalitis|virus]] spawned from an ancient [[Lion's Head beacon|probe]]. However, he and the other Cylons captured by ''Galactica'' are killed by Karl Agathon before they are within download range of a [[Resurrection Ship]]. Because he is out of range, the death of this Two is permanent. In a [[List of Deleted Scenes - Season 3 (RDM)#A Measure of Salvation|deleted scene]], Kara Thrace confronts this particular Two to ask about why Leoben took her prisoner on New Caprica. This one is either the same Two that she dealt with on New Caprica or is aware of his reasons as he answers as if it was him that did it. He explains that Leoben was looking for someone to love and for that person to love him back. He was willing to do anything for that to happen and brought in [[Kacey Brynn]] as an attempt to draw Thrace closer to him. He refuses to answer anymore questions even when a vaccine is promised to him if he does, but Simon (Number Four) offers to answer questions instead in exchange for the vaccine ([[A Measure of Salvation]]).<br />
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At the standoff between ''Galactica'' and several [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]]s over the [[algae planet]], a Two states that the [[Temple of Five]] and [[Eye of Jupiter]] are far too important to be risked over the testing of Adama's bluff to nuke the planet ([[The Eye of Jupiter]]).<br />
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After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], the Twos vote with the [[Number Six|Sixes]] and [[Number Eight|Eights]] to put a stop to [[Number One]]'s lobotomization of the [[Raider (RDM)|Raiders]], who refuse to fight for fear of harming the [[Final Five]] ([[Six of One]]) after a Raider's detection of [[Samuel Anders|one]] in the [[Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]] ([[He That Believeth In Me]]). From then on, the Twos are part of Natalie's faction in the [[Cylon Civil War|ensuing schism]] between the Seven.<br />
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One Two, either the main one that is obsesed with Starbuck or another one (it's not known for sure) aids [[Laura Roslin]] during [[Gaeta's Mutiny]]. After she tries and repeatedly fails to break through ''Galactica's'' jamming to broadcast a message to the Fleet, he uses some sort of device to help her break the jamming and transmit after she convinces the Cylons to aid her and Admiral Adama rather than run. When she succedes he tells her that he thought the device he used would do the trick and allow her to penetrate the jamming ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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A copy of the Two model is seen on the new planet with the Colonials, agreeing to remain with them to "see what good they can do before they fade away". It is not known how many survived. ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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* The model number for Leoben Conoy is revealed in the [[Season 4 (2008)|Season 4]] episode, "[[Six of One]]", along with numbers [[Number One|one]] and [[Number Four|four]]. Previously, this model was referred to by his alias both by the humans and the Cylons.<br />
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* Laura Roslin inadvertently referred to him as "Leoben ConROY" during "Flesh and Bone", which had to be edited when it was used as a sound bite in an intro segment in a subsequent episode.<br />
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*[[Wikipedia:Conoy Township, PA|Conoy]] is the name of a township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.<br />
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*[[w:Leoben|Leoben]] is also the name of city in [[w:Austria|Austria]], it is an hour north of the city of [[w:Graz|Graz]] and is home to the [[w:University of Leoben|University of Leoben]].<br />
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== Adama meeting Saul == <br />
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Adama and Saul have said on several occasions that they've known each other for 30 years. Why does this article say they met 20 years before the attacks? Shouldn't it be 30? {{unsigned|Zethon}}<br />
:[[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Adama/Tigh Meeting|According to Bradley Thompson]] he is exaggerating, and it's closer to 23 years. Maybe a note about that would help. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:20, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Definitely note it. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:35, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::[{{fullurl:Timeline (RDM)|diff=127013&oldid=118059}} Already did so] :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:42, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=="Hero" Timeline Issues, revisited==<br />
The alterations to the established timeline made in "[[Hero]]" continue to be problematic, and have allowed portions of [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Felix Gaeta]]'s articles to be contaminated with what I consider to be fancruft.<br />
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'''To review:'''<br />
All materials prior to "[[Hero]]", as well as [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] from that episode, indicate that Adama had served on ''Galactica'' for several years:<br />
*Gaeta: "And may I also take this opportunity to say it's been both a pleasure and an honor to serve under you these past three years." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Tyrol: "Sir, on behalf of Deck Crew Five I'd like to present a token of our esteem and appreciation for the many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Adama: "Chief Tyrol's been under my command for over five years" ([[Litmus]])<br />
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No indication is made that either Gaeta or Tyrol served under him on any other ship than ''Galactica''. In fact, when listing the ships he's served on in the past, Tyrol fails to mention ''Valkyrie'':<br />
*Tyrol: I've served on battlestars since I was 18 years old. The Pegasus, Columbia, Atlantia, Galactica-- ([[Resistance]]).<br />
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In real-world militaries, it would be quite remarkable for lower-ranked officers like Gaeta and NCOs like Tyrol to transfer from ship to ship with their commander. The long-running team of Tigh and Adama is remarkable as it is.<br />
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The timeline provided by [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] fits very well with the information above, placing his service on ''Valkyrie'' from -9 to -6 years BCH, and his service on Galactica from -6 to 0 years BCH. This is enough time for both Tyrol and Gaeta to have served with him for five and three years respectively, on ''Galactica'', and enough time that Tyol's comment about the "many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship" makes sense.<br />
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Problems ensue when we try to take the dialogue from "Hero" into account:<br />
*Adama: "That's right. He's one of mine. Disappeared about three years ago. We think that he was captured."<br />
*Novacek: "Well, sir, it's like this. The enemy had me locked in a cell for three years."<br />
*Roslin: "About a year prior to the Cylon attack on the Colonies, you were on a mission with Admiral Adama. Is that correct?"<br />
*Thrace: "Novacek was held on a baseship for three years[...]"<br />
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All this indicates that Adama was transferred to ''Galactica'' on -1 BCH, which demands that (a) Tyrol and Gaeta served with him on ''Valkyrie'' and transferred with him to ''Galactica'', and (b) completely invalidates Tyrol's statement from the Miniseries about Adama's lengthy command of ''Galactica''.<br />
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My preference here is to simply throw out the dialogue from "Hero", and put Bulldog's aborted mission at -6 BCH - "three years ago" should be changed to "eight years ago", and "about a year prior to the Cylon attack" should be changed to "about six years prior...". Where relevant, the contradiction should be footnoted.<br />
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The alternative, attempting to reconcile Gaeta and Tyrol's backstory with Adama's, is impossible, and should not be attempted. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 16:15, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:I couldn't agree more. ''Finally'' someone points that out. Usually I don't take printed documents like that at face value, because there are small errors in a few them. But as you said, other evidence always indicated that Adama served on ''Galactica'' for a few years. Not just Tyrol's very explicit line, but also how others like Gaeta and Kelly act around him. "Hero" messed that up, but I always chose to see it as an error in dialogue. For me it makes more sense to place the Stealthstar mission at maybe 8 years or so before the series. Thinking that Tyrol ('''and''' Gaeta!) followed him from ''Valkyrie'' to ''Galactica'' just complicates things unnecessarily. It's beyond me why the more silly way was chosen. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:23, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::It's clearly a mistake by the writers, but I'm skeptical about us choosing new dates for events as opposed to those established (however misguidedly) onscreen, this seems like just another form of fancruft. As Mr. Farago states, it is impossible to reconcile without delving into fancruft territory, so how about we just "teach the controversy", adding short notes and linking to an article explaining the discontinuity. My personal opinion is that [[Adama's Dossier]], with its two seconds of screentime, was not intended to have been taken as seriously as we tend to do here, it having been just [[Battlestar_Wiki:Official_Communiques/Archive8#Battlestar_Night_Flight.2F.28Era.29smus|produced quickly by the art department]], without significant guidance from the executive producers.[[User:OTW|OTW]] 18:43, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Frankly, the contradictions should be noted. I agree to "teaching the controversy", as OTW suggested, noting the discrepancies in the appropriate articles. "Hero" is a big error when looking at the overall picture, but one that we can't ignore by simply "throwing out the dialogue", which is like throwing out the baby with the used bathwater. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 19:55, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::I'd normally agree. It seems absurd to let a prop visible for two minutes overrule four lines of episode dialogue, and our continuity policy, which I personally promulgated, favors newer content over older in the face of conflicting evidence. I'm loathe to make an exception, since that leads to a slippery slope, but I feel like we can get away with it here for a couple reasons:<br />
:::*In addition to the dossier, there are at least five episodes corroborating the earlier version, vs. just Hero in favor of the later version.<br />
:::*The early version is integral to Tyrol's backstory and can't be reconciled with the later version.<br />
:::*As a "one-off" not connected to the overall story arc, it seems unlikely that Novacek or the events of "Hero" will be referenced again.<br />
:::In light of this, I feel comfortable making the Miniseries/Litmus/Resistance/Dossier (and, as I noted some time ago in [[Talk:Hero/Archive1#Possible_Discontinuity]], "Act of Contrition" and "The Farm") consensus the "official" version, and footnoting the "Hero" version. If necessary, a separate page explaining the particular continuity glitch and our policy to it could be drafted and linked. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 01:22, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That seems about right, how about this compromise: In articles relating to [[Hero]] we use the "Hero version", footnoting the "official version" and then in the rest of the wiki do the opposite. If Battlestar Galactica isn't entirely self-consistent, Battestar wiki doesn't need to be either. We know that RDM values a lot of things above continuity. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 04:40, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Sad, but true. That said, we have the opportunity to consistently document inconsistencies. While RDM is more bound to his muse and to storytelling, I say we throw in our lot with accuracy, consistency, and concision (anf if things occasionally get a little foot-notey we can live with it). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 05:29, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::It's infinitely more absurd to assume that both Tyrol and Gaeta followed him to ''Galactica''. I cringe every time I read that somewhere. But it's not just about his dossier. Dialogue in the Miniseries heavily implied, if not established, that he served on ''Galactica'' for several years. Then there are several dates in other episodes. I really don't understand this rule that there can't possibly be an error in dialogue. This isn't the only case where things were bent around so that the dialogue can stay as it is. Yeah, the prop/art department has made some errors in the past, and ones that can easily be ignored, but this is a case were their stuff fits (though I agree that it's taken a bit too seriously now and then) and the writers contradicted their own work. Usually people throw up their arms at the slightest hint of fanwanking and then something like this gets approved by everyone...<br />
::::As for the "[[Hero]]" page. We can leave the "three years" in the summary and then explain the error in Analysis. All other pages use "eight years" with a footnote for the explanation and maybe a link to that section. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:53, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::The pages [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Valkyrie]], [[Stealthstar]], [[Corman]] and [[Armistice Line]] currently are, and should remain, corresponding primarily to the 'hero timeline' as their information is almost entirely derived from ''Hero''. The question is, do articles such as [[William Adama]] assume his tenure on Valkyrie happened 6 BCH (which makes big assumptions about the state of the Cylons, and also means that the Stealthstar incident occurred '''before'''' humaniod cylons were violating the line) or kinda pretend it didn't happen at all? We could make the text deliberately vague about the actual timeline and then add: "There are conflicting sources on how long Adama spent on Galactica before the Cylon Holocaust, see [[Hero timeline discontinuity]]" or similar notes where relevant ''in the main text'' to make it clear. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 09:00, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::I don't see the problem in moving the date and footnoting it, explaining that we chose to ignore the date given in "Hero" in favor of a lot of other onscreen evidence. If we kept the "three years" in the main text, we'd need to make a footnote anyways to stay consistent. So there is not much of a difference either way. The ''Valkyrie'' page in particular needs to be changed because it says that Tyrol and Gaeta served there with Adama.<br />
::::::Moreover, moving "Hero" a few years earlier actually gives Adama's doubts about his role in the conflict more weight. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:20, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::This sounds good to me, OTW. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 10:18, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::::Good to see someone bringing this up. I to have been cringing every time I read that Tyrol and Gaeta came with Adama from the Valkyrie as a way of reconcilling that. It just doesn't happen in the militaries that RDM and Co. use for inspiration. I like OTW's idea, that would work pretty well, as long as we cleary spell out the differences, maybe include a link to a section of the Hero or Timeline page that deals with it. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 13:30, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=== Vote ===<br />
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Ok, there are several possibilities on how to address this. Maybe we should just vote instead of having a long discussion. There are two sections 1/2 and a/b which complement each other. One is ''what'' to write, the other is ''how''. So vote on 1 or 2 '''and''' a or b.<br />
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==== Option 1 ====<br />
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Leave the dates as they are and just note the discrepancy in a footnote and either option a or b.<br />
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==== Option 2 ====<br />
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Change the dates (except in the "[[Hero]]" summary) on pages like this one, [[William Adama]], [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Stealthstar]] and [[Valkyrie]] to 6BCH/"eight years ago" as per the dossier '''and''' earlier dialogue evidence, thus considering "Hero" dialogue an error. Then footnote that as per option a or b to explain that decision.<br />
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*{{support}} As said, I don't think it's in any way logical to accept dialogue just because it came later even though it's clearly wrong. We don't just go by a 2-second prop, but by earlier dialogue as well. If you disagree, I think option 1 is a fair alternative that preserves some of the status quo. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Serenity said it all, don't have anything to add here but that I agree. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:35, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Just because the show is inconsistent doesn't mean that we he have to be. As long as we document our assumptions clearly (so that the reader knows exactly what info is coming from where) I don't think it's misleading or too presumptive. The alternative is a set of pages that says "A", a set of pages that says "not A", and then a bunch of footnotes pointing to the discrepancies. It reads smoother just to say "A" (or "not A") and then note the particular places that didn't jive. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:04, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} I agree with Steelviper that we should try to keep as much intra-article consistency as possible. Since there are two versions of the timeline, we mention the most logical one (6BCH) in the article body, while noting the alternative (1BCH) in a footnote. If we run into any new timeline discontinuities, we should act in the same way. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:10, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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==== Option a ====<br />
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Create an own page similar to [[Season two timeline discontinuity]] which contains an explanation with earlier dialogue evidence and can be linked to. This prevents lengthy and duplicate footnotes on every page.<br />
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==== Option b ====<br />
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Put a section at the beginning of [[Hero#Analysis]] which can be linked to. Also prevents duplicate footnotes<br />
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*{{support}} I think this is the easiest solution. I'm against an own article as the issue is relatively small and can easily be explained in the episode article. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Agreed, this would be easiest and the least intrusive way of doing this. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:36, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Simpler is better. A discontinuity article is going to have very low visibility (in terms of being searched/accessed). A footnote in a higher visibility article gives the information a wider audience, and it is easier to find (so long as the footnote is located within a logical article). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:59, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
**{{comment}} I meant mainly where to store the overall information (in an own article or on the "Hero" page). I'd create a footnote behind every mention of the date. Like "While "Hero" places the date at 1 BCH, this conflicts with earlier dialogue. For a detailed analysis see..." --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:49, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Since this discontinuity isn't as big and doesn't span as many episodes as the S2 one does, it doesn't have to be in its own article. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:05, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== "Scattered" re-re-re-visted ==<br />
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Sorry to beat this dead horse again. Since we're now taking the dossier at face value, I've tried to change all dates to it. In general it fits, but it places Adama's reinstatement into the Fleet at 23 BCH and his assignment to ''Atlantia'' at 17 BCH. For the Tigh/Adama meeting we go by the podcast note that the meeting took place 20 years ago. Is there anything that says we have to take this literally and can't place it at 23 BCH? And then assume that Adama re-joined the Fleet in the same year? In fact the 23-year date is used on [[Carolanne Adama]], so the timeline isn't consistent with our other articles.<br />
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And what's the source for placing Tigh's reinstatement two years later? I know this is mentioned in the Tigh article, but it's not directly from the episode I think. Going by the [[Saul Tigh]] footnotes, it seems to come solely from the BSG magazine. Also, as it is now, it doesn't make sense that Adama got assigned to ''Atlantia'' with the rank of major 11 BCH. Because we know that he's a major when he gets Tigh back into the Fleet.<br />
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We could change it to this:<br />
*23 BCH: <br />
**Adama and Tigh meet<br />
**Adama reinstated into the Fleet in the same year (so noted in dossier: 54-31=23)<br />
*17 BCH:<br />
**Adama assigned to ''Atlantia'' makes his thousands landing (AoC), gets promoted to major<br />
**Gets Tigh back into the fleet.<br />
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The only point I'm unsure is the time between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement and the quoted two years. The dossier says "Major: Battlestar Atlantia". Maybe that means he was a major on ''Atlantia'', not that he was promoted to the rank on it. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:The document is unfortunately only a short list of Adama's accomplishments in the fleet. It would seem to me, although I'm not certain, that the list is only comprehensive to the point of reassignments, not promotions. In the Navy, it is equally common for an officer to be promoted aboard ship as well as with reassignment, although for higher level positions (such as Commander and Captain), it is increasingly more likely to recieve promotion with reassignment. So I always assumed that Adama was recommissioned as a major, although there's not really any proof of that is there (which begs the question, what was he doing for those six years?). This episode is a continuity nightmare by the way.--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 14:59, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::He was recommissioned as captain and Viper pilot. That's said explicitly in a deleted scene from "Scattered". The dossier doesn't really contradict on screen information as such, as "Scattered" is pretty vague about dating. We have the "20 years" from the podcast, but that can easily be a rounded value. As said, the two years between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement comes from the magazine I think, but we usually treat that as "valid until contradicted". So we could either extend that period to 6 years, or we could keep it as two years and assume that Adama got promoted earlier (at the moment I'm favoring that).<br />
::This probably comes down to simple choice unless someone recalls some more information. So we could decide on one, and footnote the alternative. Probably the best way. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:05, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:::My reading is that Adama serves on the tramp freighter from -37 BCH to some point prior to -23 BCH (per the dossier). He meets Tigh in -28 BCH (per "Torn", in which Adama calls Tigh "The man that I've known for the past thirty years"). He is recomissioned in -23 BCH, rank unknown. Tigh is recomissioned in -21 BCH (two years later, per the magazine), by which point Adama holds the rank of major (per the cut scene in "Scattered"). The dossier entry for -17 BCH indicates his transfer to Atlantia, not a promotion. His thousandth landing (on Atlantia, per "Act of Contrition") must take place shortly afterwards.<br />
:::We can date Adama's marriage to Carolanne as follows: Zak dies in -2 BCH (Miniseries). He probably graduated from some kind of military academy, which would make his age at least 22 following the U.S. model. That puts his birth at roughly -24 BCH. From Adama's [[: Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photo]] with his two sons, Lee looks about two years older, putting his birth in -26 BCH.<br />
:::So, I think everything makes perfect sense here. The flashbacks in "Scattered" span seven years from -28 BCH (Adama and Tigh's first meeting) to -21 BCH (Tigh's reinstatement). Adama's comment about meeting Tigh 30 years ago in Torn fits nicely. He probably married Carolanne in -26 BCH, at which point he would have quit his job on the freighter to start a family, and resumed military service three years later, when Zak was old enough to leave with one parent. The only date that has to be fudged is Moore's comment that the "Scattered" flashbacks take place 20 years ago, and this is both the most vague and least reliable piece of information that we have to consider. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:55, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That sounds good :) I agree that we shouldn't necessarily take behind-the-scenes info over on-screen evidence. Though it can be made fit either way.<br />
::::Two comments though: First, Adama's rank is known from a deleted scene. He starts as captain as well. Second, Adama didn't quit his job with marriage. When he gets the news that he is reinstated, Tigh states "the new wife pulled through". And the two are still on the freighter. The Adamas married while he was a freight monkey and then he joined the Fleet rightaway. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 01:29, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Nice analysis, all. If we take the "twenty years ago" as a vague statement that could also mean 23 years, Peter's reading fits pretty much perfectly (adjusting it for what Serenity pointed out above, of course). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 05:57, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::Well, right now we have the meeting at 28 years. We could also place it at 23 years and assume that Adama got recommissioned in the same year. Both versions work, but 28 years fits better with the line that they've known each other for 30 years. This part of the timeline isn't such a mess as some make it out to be. The only major reshuffling is the ''Valkyrie'' mission.<br />
::::::Also regarding Tyrol's "ten years" comment. That might be a rounded value - people often think in 10, 15, 20 years - so I put that as "circa". --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:37, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== Ancient History ==<br />
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*'''4,000 years BCH:''' The Thirteenth Tribe reportedly leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1]. At some undated point, something travels from Earth to Kobol, passing on information about Earth, including a map of its night sky. <br />
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This would be clearer if these 3 items were seperated. The virus on the beacon is an exact match of a virus reported 3000 years ago. This is a major clue in the series and should be given more importance as opposed to being mentioned in passing the way its written here. Also it need to be specified that the Temple is *radio carbon* dated to 4000 years.<br />
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Quote Adama to Roslin "According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Quote Tyrol to Adama "Our initial radio carbon dating suggests the temples at least 4000 years old which lines up with the exodus of the 13th tribe"<br />
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This is potentially confusing since the exodus of the 13th tribe is anything from 3000-4000 years ago (if 13th tribe and 13th colony are to taken as the same thing!). The virus itsself adds more confusion, since it was an exact match then the assumption is that its the same virus since a virus will mutate pretty fast but you would think that in space it is in suspended animation. Therefore its not entirely clear that this quote is saying the beacon is 3000 years old<br />
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Since the "undated" fact is undated, it should be moved outside of the timeline but still within the Ancient History section or preferentially removed entirely since it borders speculation.<br />
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I would suggest that it reads as follows...<br />
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*'''4000 years BCH:''' The Temple of Five is built by the 13th tribe [1]<br />
*'''4000 - 3000 years BCH:''' The 13th tribe/colony leaves Kobol [1] [2]<br />
*'''After 3000 years BCH:''' The beacon is left behind by the 13th colony [2]<br />
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The [1], [2] points to the two quotes listed above.<br />
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Its not exactly clear in which order these occured but it represents the facts as we know them. It is very important that this timeline is listed as clearly as possible since it may well be one of the most crucial bits of information in the show. Although it is commonly assumed that the 13th tribe left Kobol, left a beacon and then built the temple it is not clear from these 2 quotes that this is the correct order of events. You can create other orders based on these quotes so I think its important that preconceptions aren't written into the description of events and the ordering of these events is left up to the reader - as the show intended. --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 16:21, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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:How crucial it is depends on one's preferences. Mine are entirely elsewhere. Anyways, that's what footnotes are for. It's true that it should be left somewhat open, and it's a topic that was always unclear, but it has to be put in ''some'' order for the purpose of the article. Footnotes can give the sources and some explanation, so that the reader can decide what to make of it. They can't be too long, but 1-3 sentences are usually enough to convey the information. I changed it to make the beacon date more ambiguous, but that's said in the footnote. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:59, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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12tribes leaving Kobol 2000 years ago is wrong...<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 19:54, 5 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:There are many contradictory quotes on that one. There is a quote that says 2,000 years (you mentioned it), there is one that says 3,000 and one that says 4,000. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 03:57, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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Its only a contradiction if you make the assumption that the 13th tribe left only once - also nobody has ever said that there was only ever 1 thirteeth colony. Although its never been stated, the modern day cylons themselves are obviously a 13th colony/tribe since they have their own homeworld.<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial <br />
estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "first", also 13 tribes left Kobol, they aren't neccessarily saying the the legendary "Thirteeth Tribe" was one of them.<br />
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Adama: Why the Scroll of Pythia? <br />
Roslin: Pythia is supposed to have chronicled the original journey of the 13th Tribe on <br />
its way to Earth. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "original" - if there was only one journey then this term would have no meaning and therefore would be pointless to include it.<br />
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Adama: According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years <br />
ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Chief: Our initial radiocarbon dating suggests that the temple's at least 4,000 years <br />
old, which lines up with the exodus of the Thirteenth Tribe. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:43, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:The 13th Tribe "'''first''' left Kobol" 2,000 years ago, but also left 3,000 and 4,000 years ago? Now ''that's'' a contradiction... --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:06, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
::Yep. There is a deliberate retcon or dialogue error somewhere; or both. It's possible to reconcile two of the three dates; for example by assuming that part of them left Kobol earlier to build the temple and that the rest left later with the other tribes. But the third will contradict each two you chose. Taking all the dialogue literally and reconciling all three dates is impossible without some serve mental contortions. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:31, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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They don't say the 13th tribe left 2000 years ago, they say 13 tribes left. Sorry to keep banging on about the same point and to a certain extent I am inclined to believe its an error of some kind, more likely the history of the colonies has been changed by the writers before season 3 but I don't believe its a script error since Boomer says the same thing...<br />
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Boomer: I'm putting together a lot of pieces from a lot of sources beyond your scriptures. If I'm right, that's the spot where your god supposedly stood and watched Athena throw herself down onto the rocks below out of despair over the exodus of the 13 tribes. <br />
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Even at that point in the series it was clear that the exodus of 13 tribes resulted in 12 colonies (on Kobol pre miniseries, later changed to 12 planets). So the writers knew that there were 12 colonies and yet twice they say 13 tribes left Kobol.<br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:15, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Well, with the first twelve populating the colonies, and the 13th going in their own direction. The (legendary) 13th tribe was one of the tribes. The only reason they're legendary (and not just a plain old tribe) is that they went in a different direction and the rest of the tribes (now colonies) lost track of them. The exodus of the 13 tribes would coincide with the exodus of the 13th tribe. It looks like the exodus was a single event... they just can't seem to keep their dates straight (whether it's 2, 3 or 4K years). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:31, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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RON MOORE COMMENTARY <br />
8/26/2005 -- This notion of the constellations is something that I came up with. I wanted to connect it to our present day mythology of the Zodiac. The show is replete with symbols and references to Zodiacal things. Somehow, these names for these Colonies are not random, there is a connection, and here's the connection. That these people of the thirteenth tribe looked up into the sky and made up these constellations and assigned them to their brethren, the lost tribes. (source: The Home, Part II podcast) <br />
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You can't read much into Adama's 3000 year quote since he says "over 3000" years and he is talking about a virus, not exactly the beacon and since its unknown how the virus behaves in space, how long it takes to mutate into something different and even how long it took for the 13th tribe to get to the LionHeads nebula you can't really say anything for sure about how this fits into the timeline.<br />
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You also agree that at some point "someone" travelled from Earth to Kobol therefore the most obvious solution, which assumes no script errors is as follows<br />
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4000 years: Exodus of 13th tribe who then built the Temple<br />
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# Got to Earth <br />
# Named the constellations after their "lost" brothers<br />
# Went back to Kobol, with information on the Temple and the constellation map<br />
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2000 years: The "reunited" 13 tribes left Kobol to form 12 colonies<br />
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Surely this is the correct way to read the storyline. It makes no assumptions, requires no errors in the script, has no contradictions and interpets the quotes *exactly* as written.<br />
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Your just getting confused with "13th tribe" which reference one tribe, and "13 tribes" which references all 13.<br />
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--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:37, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Except that if it happened that way, then the knowledge of where the 13th tribe went would be with the twelve colonies (since people who had been to earth would be among the twelve colonies). The tribes always have seemed to correspond to the colonies, so having a thirteenth in the mix would upset the pattern. What's really affecting my thinking (and likely the thinking of others) is the way the exodus pattern unfolded in TOS. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:24, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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The knowledge IS with the 12 colonies, the constellation map, the knowledge of the Temple, the chronicle of the original journey also bear in mind that when the 13th colony got to Earth, the other 12 tribes were (according to RON MOORE) considered "lost" --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 08:29, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:This timeline seems to make sense. Maybe we should try asking Brad or MrsRon whether this timeline is correct and there were actually 2 exoduses. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:58, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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== "Lost Time", and other notes... ==<br />
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I think we should really note that there are various "lost time" events (i.e. "Flight of the Phoenix", "Downloaded", and even those inferred by "He That Believeth In Me") that we should note. Further, I think it would be wise to point out that there might be inaccuracies in this timeline that can never be rectified due to the lack of definitive information. Thoughts? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I thought "Downloaded" was cleared up on the DVD release? --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 03:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==BCE occurences==<br />
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[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=BCE&go=Go This search] gives 10 occurences of the BCE style, all of them in infoboxes on characters making it to Earth.<br />
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Sure the series ends with the note that all these events are supposed to be in the distant past from our perspective, culminating in the long-past settlement of our planet. <br />
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However, shouldn't at least the infoboxes if not the articles alltogether remain within the confines of the series chronology, i.e. use BCH?<br />
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Also, there is a spoiler problem. By adding BCE to all these infoboxes, all these articles give away that Galactica cannot be finding our contemporary earth.<br />
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Finally, the date in question - and note it's the same date on every page is purely an estimation. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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: We should not be using BCE at all, since there is nothing that states that the Colonial Calendar lines up exactly with the Earth calendar. Please remember that the Earth calendar has been revised several times in human history, so we've never had a consistent calendar to begin with anyway. As there is no direct correlation between an Earth year being the same as a Colonial year, and as such we should keep all times in BCH (Before Colonial Holocaust) or ACH (After Colonial Holocaust). -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 14:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Well, there is a link between the two systems as the ending of the series is .... years before our present. But that is revealed only in the last few moments of the show and should not form the basis for dates given here. It does make more sense to say Lee Adama died x years after the Cylon holocaust. <br />
::That the Earth calendar (actually is not one Earth calendar) has been revised is of no consequence however, as a) it makes little no differences to the years, b) BC is merely our present Gregorian calendar calculated backwards. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 15:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::That is the only link. There is nothing that supports a direct correlation between how the Colonial calendar works and the Earth calendar (i.e. a Colonial year could be 380 days or more, as seems to be supported by Caprica occuring only ''50'' years before the Fall and not the 52-53 needed, if we're going by the 4,571 days that the First Cylon War took). And yes, the calendar has been modified since its inception as we learn more about the rotation of our planet and other factors, and there are vast differences between the two calendars that cause discrepancies. Just look at the Julian calendar versus the Gregorian calendar. Since we do not know what the discrepancy is between the Colonial calendar and the Second Earth (our real-life) calendar, we should just do away with the whole BCE thing in terms of the BSG universe, since it adds a level of error and complication we do not need. This is something that I honestly do not believe that RDM will ever explain, since that's not how RDM really works at all. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::We are basically on the same side on the actual issue: do away with BCE.<br />
::::We only disagree about little things you said or rather about their relevance to this issue. As I said, there is no "the Calendar" on earth. Earth rotation only commands the day and that has been pretty much stable.<br />
::::I agree that is probably a discrepancy between year-lengths and day-length if directly compared to ours. TOS was certainly more "realistic" on that account.<br />
::::Back to the issue: can you suggest a ACH wording to replace the current BCE one. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::::I'll go even further.... There's no reason to note they died at all, since that's really a given and there were no special circumstances to their death. There really is no reason to use "died sometime after XXX ACH" in the infobox at all, since you would have to do that to '''every''' infobox for '''every''' character who survived up to the arrived at the new Earth. We should really leave the death section of infoboxes for confirmed deaths, not assumed. However, that's a topic for another talk page. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::Actually you are right. After all, the whole Wiki variously works under the "state as of the last episode" mode, talking about deceased characters - but from the perspective of 150,000 years later all would be deceased. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 08:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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:These are supposed to be 150,000 Earth years, aren't they? That's the time given in the article Ron is reading. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 17:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
::So this is how the 148,000 BC numberes originates: 150,000 years minus 2,000 years.<br />
::'''My proposal is change the current text to ''"died after the settlement of New Earth in ... ACH"''.<br />
::How many years after the Cylon Holocaust does the series end? Our season timelines (which actually are not timelines at all) do not help in this. The best estimation I have is based on a comment during the mutinty, which talks about "fighting the Cylons for four years" - that this fits with the four seasons is probably no coincidence.<br />
::So how about '''''"died after the settlement of New Earth in 4 ACH?"'''''<br />
::[[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Timeline_(RDM)/Archive5&diff=178310Talk:Timeline (RDM)/Archive52009-04-05T09:54:44Z<p>Str1977: /* BCE occurences */</p>
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== Adama meeting Saul == <br />
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Adama and Saul have said on several occasions that they've known each other for 30 years. Why does this article say they met 20 years before the attacks? Shouldn't it be 30? {{unsigned|Zethon}}<br />
:[[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Adama/Tigh Meeting|According to Bradley Thompson]] he is exaggerating, and it's closer to 23 years. Maybe a note about that would help. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:20, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Definitely note it. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:35, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::[{{fullurl:Timeline (RDM)|diff=127013&oldid=118059}} Already did so] :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:42, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=="Hero" Timeline Issues, revisited==<br />
The alterations to the established timeline made in "[[Hero]]" continue to be problematic, and have allowed portions of [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Felix Gaeta]]'s articles to be contaminated with what I consider to be fancruft.<br />
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'''To review:'''<br />
All materials prior to "[[Hero]]", as well as [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] from that episode, indicate that Adama had served on ''Galactica'' for several years:<br />
*Gaeta: "And may I also take this opportunity to say it's been both a pleasure and an honor to serve under you these past three years." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Tyrol: "Sir, on behalf of Deck Crew Five I'd like to present a token of our esteem and appreciation for the many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Adama: "Chief Tyrol's been under my command for over five years" ([[Litmus]])<br />
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No indication is made that either Gaeta or Tyrol served under him on any other ship than ''Galactica''. In fact, when listing the ships he's served on in the past, Tyrol fails to mention ''Valkyrie'':<br />
*Tyrol: I've served on battlestars since I was 18 years old. The Pegasus, Columbia, Atlantia, Galactica-- ([[Resistance]]).<br />
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In real-world militaries, it would be quite remarkable for lower-ranked officers like Gaeta and NCOs like Tyrol to transfer from ship to ship with their commander. The long-running team of Tigh and Adama is remarkable as it is.<br />
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The timeline provided by [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] fits very well with the information above, placing his service on ''Valkyrie'' from -9 to -6 years BCH, and his service on Galactica from -6 to 0 years BCH. This is enough time for both Tyrol and Gaeta to have served with him for five and three years respectively, on ''Galactica'', and enough time that Tyol's comment about the "many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship" makes sense.<br />
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Problems ensue when we try to take the dialogue from "Hero" into account:<br />
*Adama: "That's right. He's one of mine. Disappeared about three years ago. We think that he was captured."<br />
*Novacek: "Well, sir, it's like this. The enemy had me locked in a cell for three years."<br />
*Roslin: "About a year prior to the Cylon attack on the Colonies, you were on a mission with Admiral Adama. Is that correct?"<br />
*Thrace: "Novacek was held on a baseship for three years[...]"<br />
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All this indicates that Adama was transferred to ''Galactica'' on -1 BCH, which demands that (a) Tyrol and Gaeta served with him on ''Valkyrie'' and transferred with him to ''Galactica'', and (b) completely invalidates Tyrol's statement from the Miniseries about Adama's lengthy command of ''Galactica''.<br />
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My preference here is to simply throw out the dialogue from "Hero", and put Bulldog's aborted mission at -6 BCH - "three years ago" should be changed to "eight years ago", and "about a year prior to the Cylon attack" should be changed to "about six years prior...". Where relevant, the contradiction should be footnoted.<br />
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The alternative, attempting to reconcile Gaeta and Tyrol's backstory with Adama's, is impossible, and should not be attempted. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 16:15, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:I couldn't agree more. ''Finally'' someone points that out. Usually I don't take printed documents like that at face value, because there are small errors in a few them. But as you said, other evidence always indicated that Adama served on ''Galactica'' for a few years. Not just Tyrol's very explicit line, but also how others like Gaeta and Kelly act around him. "Hero" messed that up, but I always chose to see it as an error in dialogue. For me it makes more sense to place the Stealthstar mission at maybe 8 years or so before the series. Thinking that Tyrol ('''and''' Gaeta!) followed him from ''Valkyrie'' to ''Galactica'' just complicates things unnecessarily. It's beyond me why the more silly way was chosen. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:23, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::It's clearly a mistake by the writers, but I'm skeptical about us choosing new dates for events as opposed to those established (however misguidedly) onscreen, this seems like just another form of fancruft. As Mr. Farago states, it is impossible to reconcile without delving into fancruft territory, so how about we just "teach the controversy", adding short notes and linking to an article explaining the discontinuity. My personal opinion is that [[Adama's Dossier]], with its two seconds of screentime, was not intended to have been taken as seriously as we tend to do here, it having been just [[Battlestar_Wiki:Official_Communiques/Archive8#Battlestar_Night_Flight.2F.28Era.29smus|produced quickly by the art department]], without significant guidance from the executive producers.[[User:OTW|OTW]] 18:43, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Frankly, the contradictions should be noted. I agree to "teaching the controversy", as OTW suggested, noting the discrepancies in the appropriate articles. "Hero" is a big error when looking at the overall picture, but one that we can't ignore by simply "throwing out the dialogue", which is like throwing out the baby with the used bathwater. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 19:55, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::I'd normally agree. It seems absurd to let a prop visible for two minutes overrule four lines of episode dialogue, and our continuity policy, which I personally promulgated, favors newer content over older in the face of conflicting evidence. I'm loathe to make an exception, since that leads to a slippery slope, but I feel like we can get away with it here for a couple reasons:<br />
:::*In addition to the dossier, there are at least five episodes corroborating the earlier version, vs. just Hero in favor of the later version.<br />
:::*The early version is integral to Tyrol's backstory and can't be reconciled with the later version.<br />
:::*As a "one-off" not connected to the overall story arc, it seems unlikely that Novacek or the events of "Hero" will be referenced again.<br />
:::In light of this, I feel comfortable making the Miniseries/Litmus/Resistance/Dossier (and, as I noted some time ago in [[Talk:Hero/Archive1#Possible_Discontinuity]], "Act of Contrition" and "The Farm") consensus the "official" version, and footnoting the "Hero" version. If necessary, a separate page explaining the particular continuity glitch and our policy to it could be drafted and linked. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 01:22, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That seems about right, how about this compromise: In articles relating to [[Hero]] we use the "Hero version", footnoting the "official version" and then in the rest of the wiki do the opposite. If Battlestar Galactica isn't entirely self-consistent, Battestar wiki doesn't need to be either. We know that RDM values a lot of things above continuity. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 04:40, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Sad, but true. That said, we have the opportunity to consistently document inconsistencies. While RDM is more bound to his muse and to storytelling, I say we throw in our lot with accuracy, consistency, and concision (anf if things occasionally get a little foot-notey we can live with it). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 05:29, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::It's infinitely more absurd to assume that both Tyrol and Gaeta followed him to ''Galactica''. I cringe every time I read that somewhere. But it's not just about his dossier. Dialogue in the Miniseries heavily implied, if not established, that he served on ''Galactica'' for several years. Then there are several dates in other episodes. I really don't understand this rule that there can't possibly be an error in dialogue. This isn't the only case where things were bent around so that the dialogue can stay as it is. Yeah, the prop/art department has made some errors in the past, and ones that can easily be ignored, but this is a case were their stuff fits (though I agree that it's taken a bit too seriously now and then) and the writers contradicted their own work. Usually people throw up their arms at the slightest hint of fanwanking and then something like this gets approved by everyone...<br />
::::As for the "[[Hero]]" page. We can leave the "three years" in the summary and then explain the error in Analysis. All other pages use "eight years" with a footnote for the explanation and maybe a link to that section. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:53, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::The pages [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Valkyrie]], [[Stealthstar]], [[Corman]] and [[Armistice Line]] currently are, and should remain, corresponding primarily to the 'hero timeline' as their information is almost entirely derived from ''Hero''. The question is, do articles such as [[William Adama]] assume his tenure on Valkyrie happened 6 BCH (which makes big assumptions about the state of the Cylons, and also means that the Stealthstar incident occurred '''before'''' humaniod cylons were violating the line) or kinda pretend it didn't happen at all? We could make the text deliberately vague about the actual timeline and then add: "There are conflicting sources on how long Adama spent on Galactica before the Cylon Holocaust, see [[Hero timeline discontinuity]]" or similar notes where relevant ''in the main text'' to make it clear. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 09:00, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::I don't see the problem in moving the date and footnoting it, explaining that we chose to ignore the date given in "Hero" in favor of a lot of other onscreen evidence. If we kept the "three years" in the main text, we'd need to make a footnote anyways to stay consistent. So there is not much of a difference either way. The ''Valkyrie'' page in particular needs to be changed because it says that Tyrol and Gaeta served there with Adama.<br />
::::::Moreover, moving "Hero" a few years earlier actually gives Adama's doubts about his role in the conflict more weight. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:20, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::This sounds good to me, OTW. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 10:18, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::::Good to see someone bringing this up. I to have been cringing every time I read that Tyrol and Gaeta came with Adama from the Valkyrie as a way of reconcilling that. It just doesn't happen in the militaries that RDM and Co. use for inspiration. I like OTW's idea, that would work pretty well, as long as we cleary spell out the differences, maybe include a link to a section of the Hero or Timeline page that deals with it. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 13:30, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=== Vote ===<br />
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Ok, there are several possibilities on how to address this. Maybe we should just vote instead of having a long discussion. There are two sections 1/2 and a/b which complement each other. One is ''what'' to write, the other is ''how''. So vote on 1 or 2 '''and''' a or b.<br />
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==== Option 1 ====<br />
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Leave the dates as they are and just note the discrepancy in a footnote and either option a or b.<br />
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==== Option 2 ====<br />
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Change the dates (except in the "[[Hero]]" summary) on pages like this one, [[William Adama]], [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Stealthstar]] and [[Valkyrie]] to 6BCH/"eight years ago" as per the dossier '''and''' earlier dialogue evidence, thus considering "Hero" dialogue an error. Then footnote that as per option a or b to explain that decision.<br />
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*{{support}} As said, I don't think it's in any way logical to accept dialogue just because it came later even though it's clearly wrong. We don't just go by a 2-second prop, but by earlier dialogue as well. If you disagree, I think option 1 is a fair alternative that preserves some of the status quo. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Serenity said it all, don't have anything to add here but that I agree. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:35, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Just because the show is inconsistent doesn't mean that we he have to be. As long as we document our assumptions clearly (so that the reader knows exactly what info is coming from where) I don't think it's misleading or too presumptive. The alternative is a set of pages that says "A", a set of pages that says "not A", and then a bunch of footnotes pointing to the discrepancies. It reads smoother just to say "A" (or "not A") and then note the particular places that didn't jive. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:04, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} I agree with Steelviper that we should try to keep as much intra-article consistency as possible. Since there are two versions of the timeline, we mention the most logical one (6BCH) in the article body, while noting the alternative (1BCH) in a footnote. If we run into any new timeline discontinuities, we should act in the same way. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:10, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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==== Option a ====<br />
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Create an own page similar to [[Season two timeline discontinuity]] which contains an explanation with earlier dialogue evidence and can be linked to. This prevents lengthy and duplicate footnotes on every page.<br />
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==== Option b ====<br />
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Put a section at the beginning of [[Hero#Analysis]] which can be linked to. Also prevents duplicate footnotes<br />
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*{{support}} I think this is the easiest solution. I'm against an own article as the issue is relatively small and can easily be explained in the episode article. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Agreed, this would be easiest and the least intrusive way of doing this. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:36, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Simpler is better. A discontinuity article is going to have very low visibility (in terms of being searched/accessed). A footnote in a higher visibility article gives the information a wider audience, and it is easier to find (so long as the footnote is located within a logical article). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:59, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
**{{comment}} I meant mainly where to store the overall information (in an own article or on the "Hero" page). I'd create a footnote behind every mention of the date. Like "While "Hero" places the date at 1 BCH, this conflicts with earlier dialogue. For a detailed analysis see..." --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:49, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Since this discontinuity isn't as big and doesn't span as many episodes as the S2 one does, it doesn't have to be in its own article. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:05, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== "Scattered" re-re-re-visted ==<br />
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Sorry to beat this dead horse again. Since we're now taking the dossier at face value, I've tried to change all dates to it. In general it fits, but it places Adama's reinstatement into the Fleet at 23 BCH and his assignment to ''Atlantia'' at 17 BCH. For the Tigh/Adama meeting we go by the podcast note that the meeting took place 20 years ago. Is there anything that says we have to take this literally and can't place it at 23 BCH? And then assume that Adama re-joined the Fleet in the same year? In fact the 23-year date is used on [[Carolanne Adama]], so the timeline isn't consistent with our other articles.<br />
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And what's the source for placing Tigh's reinstatement two years later? I know this is mentioned in the Tigh article, but it's not directly from the episode I think. Going by the [[Saul Tigh]] footnotes, it seems to come solely from the BSG magazine. Also, as it is now, it doesn't make sense that Adama got assigned to ''Atlantia'' with the rank of major 11 BCH. Because we know that he's a major when he gets Tigh back into the Fleet.<br />
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We could change it to this:<br />
*23 BCH: <br />
**Adama and Tigh meet<br />
**Adama reinstated into the Fleet in the same year (so noted in dossier: 54-31=23)<br />
*17 BCH:<br />
**Adama assigned to ''Atlantia'' makes his thousands landing (AoC), gets promoted to major<br />
**Gets Tigh back into the fleet.<br />
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The only point I'm unsure is the time between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement and the quoted two years. The dossier says "Major: Battlestar Atlantia". Maybe that means he was a major on ''Atlantia'', not that he was promoted to the rank on it. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:The document is unfortunately only a short list of Adama's accomplishments in the fleet. It would seem to me, although I'm not certain, that the list is only comprehensive to the point of reassignments, not promotions. In the Navy, it is equally common for an officer to be promoted aboard ship as well as with reassignment, although for higher level positions (such as Commander and Captain), it is increasingly more likely to recieve promotion with reassignment. So I always assumed that Adama was recommissioned as a major, although there's not really any proof of that is there (which begs the question, what was he doing for those six years?). This episode is a continuity nightmare by the way.--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 14:59, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::He was recommissioned as captain and Viper pilot. That's said explicitly in a deleted scene from "Scattered". The dossier doesn't really contradict on screen information as such, as "Scattered" is pretty vague about dating. We have the "20 years" from the podcast, but that can easily be a rounded value. As said, the two years between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement comes from the magazine I think, but we usually treat that as "valid until contradicted". So we could either extend that period to 6 years, or we could keep it as two years and assume that Adama got promoted earlier (at the moment I'm favoring that).<br />
::This probably comes down to simple choice unless someone recalls some more information. So we could decide on one, and footnote the alternative. Probably the best way. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:05, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:::My reading is that Adama serves on the tramp freighter from -37 BCH to some point prior to -23 BCH (per the dossier). He meets Tigh in -28 BCH (per "Torn", in which Adama calls Tigh "The man that I've known for the past thirty years"). He is recomissioned in -23 BCH, rank unknown. Tigh is recomissioned in -21 BCH (two years later, per the magazine), by which point Adama holds the rank of major (per the cut scene in "Scattered"). The dossier entry for -17 BCH indicates his transfer to Atlantia, not a promotion. His thousandth landing (on Atlantia, per "Act of Contrition") must take place shortly afterwards.<br />
:::We can date Adama's marriage to Carolanne as follows: Zak dies in -2 BCH (Miniseries). He probably graduated from some kind of military academy, which would make his age at least 22 following the U.S. model. That puts his birth at roughly -24 BCH. From Adama's [[: Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photo]] with his two sons, Lee looks about two years older, putting his birth in -26 BCH.<br />
:::So, I think everything makes perfect sense here. The flashbacks in "Scattered" span seven years from -28 BCH (Adama and Tigh's first meeting) to -21 BCH (Tigh's reinstatement). Adama's comment about meeting Tigh 30 years ago in Torn fits nicely. He probably married Carolanne in -26 BCH, at which point he would have quit his job on the freighter to start a family, and resumed military service three years later, when Zak was old enough to leave with one parent. The only date that has to be fudged is Moore's comment that the "Scattered" flashbacks take place 20 years ago, and this is both the most vague and least reliable piece of information that we have to consider. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:55, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That sounds good :) I agree that we shouldn't necessarily take behind-the-scenes info over on-screen evidence. Though it can be made fit either way.<br />
::::Two comments though: First, Adama's rank is known from a deleted scene. He starts as captain as well. Second, Adama didn't quit his job with marriage. When he gets the news that he is reinstated, Tigh states "the new wife pulled through". And the two are still on the freighter. The Adamas married while he was a freight monkey and then he joined the Fleet rightaway. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 01:29, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Nice analysis, all. If we take the "twenty years ago" as a vague statement that could also mean 23 years, Peter's reading fits pretty much perfectly (adjusting it for what Serenity pointed out above, of course). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 05:57, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::Well, right now we have the meeting at 28 years. We could also place it at 23 years and assume that Adama got recommissioned in the same year. Both versions work, but 28 years fits better with the line that they've known each other for 30 years. This part of the timeline isn't such a mess as some make it out to be. The only major reshuffling is the ''Valkyrie'' mission.<br />
::::::Also regarding Tyrol's "ten years" comment. That might be a rounded value - people often think in 10, 15, 20 years - so I put that as "circa". --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:37, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== Ancient History ==<br />
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*'''4,000 years BCH:''' The Thirteenth Tribe reportedly leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1]. At some undated point, something travels from Earth to Kobol, passing on information about Earth, including a map of its night sky. <br />
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This would be clearer if these 3 items were seperated. The virus on the beacon is an exact match of a virus reported 3000 years ago. This is a major clue in the series and should be given more importance as opposed to being mentioned in passing the way its written here. Also it need to be specified that the Temple is *radio carbon* dated to 4000 years.<br />
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Quote Adama to Roslin "According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Quote Tyrol to Adama "Our initial radio carbon dating suggests the temples at least 4000 years old which lines up with the exodus of the 13th tribe"<br />
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This is potentially confusing since the exodus of the 13th tribe is anything from 3000-4000 years ago (if 13th tribe and 13th colony are to taken as the same thing!). The virus itsself adds more confusion, since it was an exact match then the assumption is that its the same virus since a virus will mutate pretty fast but you would think that in space it is in suspended animation. Therefore its not entirely clear that this quote is saying the beacon is 3000 years old<br />
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Since the "undated" fact is undated, it should be moved outside of the timeline but still within the Ancient History section or preferentially removed entirely since it borders speculation.<br />
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I would suggest that it reads as follows...<br />
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*'''4000 years BCH:''' The Temple of Five is built by the 13th tribe [1]<br />
*'''4000 - 3000 years BCH:''' The 13th tribe/colony leaves Kobol [1] [2]<br />
*'''After 3000 years BCH:''' The beacon is left behind by the 13th colony [2]<br />
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The [1], [2] points to the two quotes listed above.<br />
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Its not exactly clear in which order these occured but it represents the facts as we know them. It is very important that this timeline is listed as clearly as possible since it may well be one of the most crucial bits of information in the show. Although it is commonly assumed that the 13th tribe left Kobol, left a beacon and then built the temple it is not clear from these 2 quotes that this is the correct order of events. You can create other orders based on these quotes so I think its important that preconceptions aren't written into the description of events and the ordering of these events is left up to the reader - as the show intended. --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 16:21, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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:How crucial it is depends on one's preferences. Mine are entirely elsewhere. Anyways, that's what footnotes are for. It's true that it should be left somewhat open, and it's a topic that was always unclear, but it has to be put in ''some'' order for the purpose of the article. Footnotes can give the sources and some explanation, so that the reader can decide what to make of it. They can't be too long, but 1-3 sentences are usually enough to convey the information. I changed it to make the beacon date more ambiguous, but that's said in the footnote. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:59, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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12tribes leaving Kobol 2000 years ago is wrong...<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 19:54, 5 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:There are many contradictory quotes on that one. There is a quote that says 2,000 years (you mentioned it), there is one that says 3,000 and one that says 4,000. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 03:57, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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Its only a contradiction if you make the assumption that the 13th tribe left only once - also nobody has ever said that there was only ever 1 thirteeth colony. Although its never been stated, the modern day cylons themselves are obviously a 13th colony/tribe since they have their own homeworld.<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial <br />
estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "first", also 13 tribes left Kobol, they aren't neccessarily saying the the legendary "Thirteeth Tribe" was one of them.<br />
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Adama: Why the Scroll of Pythia? <br />
Roslin: Pythia is supposed to have chronicled the original journey of the 13th Tribe on <br />
its way to Earth. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "original" - if there was only one journey then this term would have no meaning and therefore would be pointless to include it.<br />
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Adama: According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years <br />
ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Chief: Our initial radiocarbon dating suggests that the temple's at least 4,000 years <br />
old, which lines up with the exodus of the Thirteenth Tribe. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:43, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:The 13th Tribe "'''first''' left Kobol" 2,000 years ago, but also left 3,000 and 4,000 years ago? Now ''that's'' a contradiction... --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:06, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
::Yep. There is a deliberate retcon or dialogue error somewhere; or both. It's possible to reconcile two of the three dates; for example by assuming that part of them left Kobol earlier to build the temple and that the rest left later with the other tribes. But the third will contradict each two you chose. Taking all the dialogue literally and reconciling all three dates is impossible without some serve mental contortions. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:31, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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They don't say the 13th tribe left 2000 years ago, they say 13 tribes left. Sorry to keep banging on about the same point and to a certain extent I am inclined to believe its an error of some kind, more likely the history of the colonies has been changed by the writers before season 3 but I don't believe its a script error since Boomer says the same thing...<br />
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Boomer: I'm putting together a lot of pieces from a lot of sources beyond your scriptures. If I'm right, that's the spot where your god supposedly stood and watched Athena throw herself down onto the rocks below out of despair over the exodus of the 13 tribes. <br />
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Even at that point in the series it was clear that the exodus of 13 tribes resulted in 12 colonies (on Kobol pre miniseries, later changed to 12 planets). So the writers knew that there were 12 colonies and yet twice they say 13 tribes left Kobol.<br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:15, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Well, with the first twelve populating the colonies, and the 13th going in their own direction. The (legendary) 13th tribe was one of the tribes. The only reason they're legendary (and not just a plain old tribe) is that they went in a different direction and the rest of the tribes (now colonies) lost track of them. The exodus of the 13 tribes would coincide with the exodus of the 13th tribe. It looks like the exodus was a single event... they just can't seem to keep their dates straight (whether it's 2, 3 or 4K years). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:31, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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RON MOORE COMMENTARY <br />
8/26/2005 -- This notion of the constellations is something that I came up with. I wanted to connect it to our present day mythology of the Zodiac. The show is replete with symbols and references to Zodiacal things. Somehow, these names for these Colonies are not random, there is a connection, and here's the connection. That these people of the thirteenth tribe looked up into the sky and made up these constellations and assigned them to their brethren, the lost tribes. (source: The Home, Part II podcast) <br />
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You can't read much into Adama's 3000 year quote since he says "over 3000" years and he is talking about a virus, not exactly the beacon and since its unknown how the virus behaves in space, how long it takes to mutate into something different and even how long it took for the 13th tribe to get to the LionHeads nebula you can't really say anything for sure about how this fits into the timeline.<br />
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You also agree that at some point "someone" travelled from Earth to Kobol therefore the most obvious solution, which assumes no script errors is as follows<br />
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4000 years: Exodus of 13th tribe who then built the Temple<br />
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# Got to Earth <br />
# Named the constellations after their "lost" brothers<br />
# Went back to Kobol, with information on the Temple and the constellation map<br />
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2000 years: The "reunited" 13 tribes left Kobol to form 12 colonies<br />
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Surely this is the correct way to read the storyline. It makes no assumptions, requires no errors in the script, has no contradictions and interpets the quotes *exactly* as written.<br />
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Your just getting confused with "13th tribe" which reference one tribe, and "13 tribes" which references all 13.<br />
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--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:37, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Except that if it happened that way, then the knowledge of where the 13th tribe went would be with the twelve colonies (since people who had been to earth would be among the twelve colonies). The tribes always have seemed to correspond to the colonies, so having a thirteenth in the mix would upset the pattern. What's really affecting my thinking (and likely the thinking of others) is the way the exodus pattern unfolded in TOS. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:24, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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The knowledge IS with the 12 colonies, the constellation map, the knowledge of the Temple, the chronicle of the original journey also bear in mind that when the 13th colony got to Earth, the other 12 tribes were (according to RON MOORE) considered "lost" --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 08:29, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:This timeline seems to make sense. Maybe we should try asking Brad or MrsRon whether this timeline is correct and there were actually 2 exoduses. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:58, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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== "Lost Time", and other notes... ==<br />
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I think we should really note that there are various "lost time" events (i.e. "Flight of the Phoenix", "Downloaded", and even those inferred by "He That Believeth In Me") that we should note. Further, I think it would be wise to point out that there might be inaccuracies in this timeline that can never be rectified due to the lack of definitive information. Thoughts? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I thought "Downloaded" was cleared up on the DVD release? --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 03:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==BCE occurences==<br />
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[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=BCE&go=Go This search] gives 10 occurences of the BCE style, all of them in infoboxes on characters making it to Earth.<br />
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Sure the series ends with the note that all these events are supposed to be in the distant past from our perspective, culminating in the long-past settlement of our planet. <br />
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However, shouldn't at least the infoboxes if not the articles alltogether remain within the confines of the series chronology, i.e. use BCH?<br />
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Also, there is a spoiler problem. By adding BCE to all these infoboxes, all these articles give away that Galactica cannot be finding our contemporary earth.<br />
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Finally, the date in question - and note it's the same date on every page is purely an estimation. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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: We should not be using BCE at all, since there is nothing that states that the Colonial Calendar lines up exactly with the Earth calendar. Please remember that the Earth calendar has been revised several times in human history, so we've never had a consistent calendar to begin with anyway. As there is no direct correlation between an Earth year being the same as a Colonial year, and as such we should keep all times in BCH (Before Colonial Holocaust) or ACH (After Colonial Holocaust). -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 14:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Well, there is a link between the two systems as the ending of the series is .... years before our present. But that is revealed only in the last few moments of the show and should not form the basis for dates given here. It does make more sense to say Lee Adama died x years after the Cylon holocaust. <br />
::That the Earth calendar (actually is not one Earth calendar) has been revised is of no consequence however, as a) it makes little no differences to the years, b) BC is merely our present Gregorian calendar calculated backwards. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 15:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::That is the only link. There is nothing that supports a direct correlation between how the Colonial calendar works and the Earth calendar (i.e. a Colonial year could be 380 days or more, as seems to be supported by Caprica occuring only ''50'' years before the Fall and not the 52-53 needed, if we're going by the 4,571 days that the First Cylon War took). And yes, the calendar has been modified since its inception as we learn more about the rotation of our planet and other factors, and there are vast differences between the two calendars that cause discrepancies. Just look at the Julian calendar versus the Gregorian calendar. Since we do not know what the discrepancy is between the Colonial calendar and the Second Earth (our real-life) calendar, we should just do away with the whole BCE thing in terms of the BSG universe, since it adds a level of error and complication we do not need. This is something that I honestly do not believe that RDM will ever explain, since that's not how RDM really works at all. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::We are basically on the same side on the actual issue: do away with BCE.<br />
::::We only disagree about little things you said or rather about their relevance to this issue. As I said, there is no "the Calendar" on earth. Earth rotation only commands the day and that has been pretty much stable.<br />
::::I agree that is probably a discrepancy between year-lengths and day-length if directly compared to ours. TOS was certainly more "realistic" on that account.<br />
::::Back to the issue: can you suggest a ACH wording to replace the current BCE one. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::::I'll go even further.... There's no reason to note they died at all, since that's really a given and there were no special circumstances to their death. There really is no reason to use "died sometime after XXX ACH" in the infobox at all, since you would have to do that to '''every''' infobox for '''every''' character who survived up to the arrived at the new Earth. We should really leave the death section of infoboxes for confirmed deaths, not assumed. However, that's a topic for another talk page. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::Actually you are right. After all, the whole Wiki variously works under the "state as of the last episode" mode, talking about deceased characters - but from the perspective of 150,000 years later all would be deceased. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 08:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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:These are supposed to be 150,000 Earth years, aren't they? That's the time given in the article Ron is reading. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 17:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
::So this is how the 148,000 BC numberes originates: 150,000 years minus 2,000 years.<br />
::'''My proposal is change the current text to ''"died after the settlement of New Earth in ... ACH"''.<br />
::How many years after the Cylon Holocaust does the series end? Our season timelines (which actually are not timelines at all) do not help in this. The best estimation I have is based on a comment during the mutinty, which talks about "fighting the Cylons for four years" - that this fits with the four seasons is probably no coincidence.<br />
::So how about ''"died after the settlement of New Earth in 4 ACH"''?<br />
::[[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Timeline_(RDM)/Archive5&diff=178307Talk:Timeline (RDM)/Archive52009-04-05T08:13:17Z<p>Str1977: /* BCE occurences */</p>
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== Adama meeting Saul == <br />
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Adama and Saul have said on several occasions that they've known each other for 30 years. Why does this article say they met 20 years before the attacks? Shouldn't it be 30? {{unsigned|Zethon}}<br />
:[[Battlestar Wiki:Official Communiques#Adama/Tigh Meeting|According to Bradley Thompson]] he is exaggerating, and it's closer to 23 years. Maybe a note about that would help. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:20, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Definitely note it. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 16:35, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::[{{fullurl:Timeline (RDM)|diff=127013&oldid=118059}} Already did so] :) --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:42, 26 June 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=="Hero" Timeline Issues, revisited==<br />
The alterations to the established timeline made in "[[Hero]]" continue to be problematic, and have allowed portions of [[Galen Tyrol]] and [[Felix Gaeta]]'s articles to be contaminated with what I consider to be fancruft.<br />
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'''To review:'''<br />
All materials prior to "[[Hero]]", as well as [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] from that episode, indicate that Adama had served on ''Galactica'' for several years:<br />
*Gaeta: "And may I also take this opportunity to say it's been both a pleasure and an honor to serve under you these past three years." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Tyrol: "Sir, on behalf of Deck Crew Five I'd like to present a token of our esteem and appreciation for the many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship." ([[Miniseries]])<br />
*Adama: "Chief Tyrol's been under my command for over five years" ([[Litmus]])<br />
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No indication is made that either Gaeta or Tyrol served under him on any other ship than ''Galactica''. In fact, when listing the ships he's served on in the past, Tyrol fails to mention ''Valkyrie'':<br />
*Tyrol: I've served on battlestars since I was 18 years old. The Pegasus, Columbia, Atlantia, Galactica-- ([[Resistance]]).<br />
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In real-world militaries, it would be quite remarkable for lower-ranked officers like Gaeta and NCOs like Tyrol to transfer from ship to ship with their commander. The long-running team of Tigh and Adama is remarkable as it is.<br />
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The timeline provided by [[Sources:Adama's Dossier|Adama's Dossier]] fits very well with the information above, placing his service on ''Valkyrie'' from -9 to -6 years BCH, and his service on Galactica from -6 to 0 years BCH. This is enough time for both Tyrol and Gaeta to have served with him for five and three years respectively, on ''Galactica'', and enough time that Tyol's comment about the "many years you've served as commanding officer of this ship" makes sense.<br />
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Problems ensue when we try to take the dialogue from "Hero" into account:<br />
*Adama: "That's right. He's one of mine. Disappeared about three years ago. We think that he was captured."<br />
*Novacek: "Well, sir, it's like this. The enemy had me locked in a cell for three years."<br />
*Roslin: "About a year prior to the Cylon attack on the Colonies, you were on a mission with Admiral Adama. Is that correct?"<br />
*Thrace: "Novacek was held on a baseship for three years[...]"<br />
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All this indicates that Adama was transferred to ''Galactica'' on -1 BCH, which demands that (a) Tyrol and Gaeta served with him on ''Valkyrie'' and transferred with him to ''Galactica'', and (b) completely invalidates Tyrol's statement from the Miniseries about Adama's lengthy command of ''Galactica''.<br />
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My preference here is to simply throw out the dialogue from "Hero", and put Bulldog's aborted mission at -6 BCH - "three years ago" should be changed to "eight years ago", and "about a year prior to the Cylon attack" should be changed to "about six years prior...". Where relevant, the contradiction should be footnoted.<br />
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The alternative, attempting to reconcile Gaeta and Tyrol's backstory with Adama's, is impossible, and should not be attempted. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 16:15, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:I couldn't agree more. ''Finally'' someone points that out. Usually I don't take printed documents like that at face value, because there are small errors in a few them. But as you said, other evidence always indicated that Adama served on ''Galactica'' for a few years. Not just Tyrol's very explicit line, but also how others like Gaeta and Kelly act around him. "Hero" messed that up, but I always chose to see it as an error in dialogue. For me it makes more sense to place the Stealthstar mission at maybe 8 years or so before the series. Thinking that Tyrol ('''and''' Gaeta!) followed him from ''Valkyrie'' to ''Galactica'' just complicates things unnecessarily. It's beyond me why the more silly way was chosen. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:23, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::It's clearly a mistake by the writers, but I'm skeptical about us choosing new dates for events as opposed to those established (however misguidedly) onscreen, this seems like just another form of fancruft. As Mr. Farago states, it is impossible to reconcile without delving into fancruft territory, so how about we just "teach the controversy", adding short notes and linking to an article explaining the discontinuity. My personal opinion is that [[Adama's Dossier]], with its two seconds of screentime, was not intended to have been taken as seriously as we tend to do here, it having been just [[Battlestar_Wiki:Official_Communiques/Archive8#Battlestar_Night_Flight.2F.28Era.29smus|produced quickly by the art department]], without significant guidance from the executive producers.[[User:OTW|OTW]] 18:43, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::Frankly, the contradictions should be noted. I agree to "teaching the controversy", as OTW suggested, noting the discrepancies in the appropriate articles. "Hero" is a big error when looking at the overall picture, but one that we can't ignore by simply "throwing out the dialogue", which is like throwing out the baby with the used bathwater. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [http://www.sanctuarywiki.org Sanctuary Wiki &mdash; ''New'']</sup> 19:55, 20 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::I'd normally agree. It seems absurd to let a prop visible for two minutes overrule four lines of episode dialogue, and our continuity policy, which I personally promulgated, favors newer content over older in the face of conflicting evidence. I'm loathe to make an exception, since that leads to a slippery slope, but I feel like we can get away with it here for a couple reasons:<br />
:::*In addition to the dossier, there are at least five episodes corroborating the earlier version, vs. just Hero in favor of the later version.<br />
:::*The early version is integral to Tyrol's backstory and can't be reconciled with the later version.<br />
:::*As a "one-off" not connected to the overall story arc, it seems unlikely that Novacek or the events of "Hero" will be referenced again.<br />
:::In light of this, I feel comfortable making the Miniseries/Litmus/Resistance/Dossier (and, as I noted some time ago in [[Talk:Hero/Archive1#Possible_Discontinuity]], "Act of Contrition" and "The Farm") consensus the "official" version, and footnoting the "Hero" version. If necessary, a separate page explaining the particular continuity glitch and our policy to it could be drafted and linked. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 01:22, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That seems about right, how about this compromise: In articles relating to [[Hero]] we use the "Hero version", footnoting the "official version" and then in the rest of the wiki do the opposite. If Battlestar Galactica isn't entirely self-consistent, Battestar wiki doesn't need to be either. We know that RDM values a lot of things above continuity. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 04:40, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Sad, but true. That said, we have the opportunity to consistently document inconsistencies. While RDM is more bound to his muse and to storytelling, I say we throw in our lot with accuracy, consistency, and concision (anf if things occasionally get a little foot-notey we can live with it). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 05:29, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::It's infinitely more absurd to assume that both Tyrol and Gaeta followed him to ''Galactica''. I cringe every time I read that somewhere. But it's not just about his dossier. Dialogue in the Miniseries heavily implied, if not established, that he served on ''Galactica'' for several years. Then there are several dates in other episodes. I really don't understand this rule that there can't possibly be an error in dialogue. This isn't the only case where things were bent around so that the dialogue can stay as it is. Yeah, the prop/art department has made some errors in the past, and ones that can easily be ignored, but this is a case were their stuff fits (though I agree that it's taken a bit too seriously now and then) and the writers contradicted their own work. Usually people throw up their arms at the slightest hint of fanwanking and then something like this gets approved by everyone...<br />
::::As for the "[[Hero]]" page. We can leave the "three years" in the summary and then explain the error in Analysis. All other pages use "eight years" with a footnote for the explanation and maybe a link to that section. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 05:53, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::The pages [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Valkyrie]], [[Stealthstar]], [[Corman]] and [[Armistice Line]] currently are, and should remain, corresponding primarily to the 'hero timeline' as their information is almost entirely derived from ''Hero''. The question is, do articles such as [[William Adama]] assume his tenure on Valkyrie happened 6 BCH (which makes big assumptions about the state of the Cylons, and also means that the Stealthstar incident occurred '''before'''' humaniod cylons were violating the line) or kinda pretend it didn't happen at all? We could make the text deliberately vague about the actual timeline and then add: "There are conflicting sources on how long Adama spent on Galactica before the Cylon Holocaust, see [[Hero timeline discontinuity]]" or similar notes where relevant ''in the main text'' to make it clear. [[User:OTW|OTW]] 09:00, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::I don't see the problem in moving the date and footnoting it, explaining that we chose to ignore the date given in "Hero" in favor of a lot of other onscreen evidence. If we kept the "three years" in the main text, we'd need to make a footnote anyways to stay consistent. So there is not much of a difference either way. The ''Valkyrie'' page in particular needs to be changed because it says that Tyrol and Gaeta served there with Adama.<br />
::::::Moreover, moving "Hero" a few years earlier actually gives Adama's doubts about his role in the conflict more weight. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:20, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::This sounds good to me, OTW. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 10:18, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::::Good to see someone bringing this up. I to have been cringing every time I read that Tyrol and Gaeta came with Adama from the Valkyrie as a way of reconcilling that. It just doesn't happen in the militaries that RDM and Co. use for inspiration. I like OTW's idea, that would work pretty well, as long as we cleary spell out the differences, maybe include a link to a section of the Hero or Timeline page that deals with it. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 13:30, 21 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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=== Vote ===<br />
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Ok, there are several possibilities on how to address this. Maybe we should just vote instead of having a long discussion. There are two sections 1/2 and a/b which complement each other. One is ''what'' to write, the other is ''how''. So vote on 1 or 2 '''and''' a or b.<br />
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==== Option 1 ====<br />
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Leave the dates as they are and just note the discrepancy in a footnote and either option a or b.<br />
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==== Option 2 ====<br />
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Change the dates (except in the "[[Hero]]" summary) on pages like this one, [[William Adama]], [[Daniel Novacek]], [[Stealthstar]] and [[Valkyrie]] to 6BCH/"eight years ago" as per the dossier '''and''' earlier dialogue evidence, thus considering "Hero" dialogue an error. Then footnote that as per option a or b to explain that decision.<br />
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*{{support}} As said, I don't think it's in any way logical to accept dialogue just because it came later even though it's clearly wrong. We don't just go by a 2-second prop, but by earlier dialogue as well. If you disagree, I think option 1 is a fair alternative that preserves some of the status quo. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Serenity said it all, don't have anything to add here but that I agree. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:35, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Just because the show is inconsistent doesn't mean that we he have to be. As long as we document our assumptions clearly (so that the reader knows exactly what info is coming from where) I don't think it's misleading or too presumptive. The alternative is a set of pages that says "A", a set of pages that says "not A", and then a bunch of footnotes pointing to the discrepancies. It reads smoother just to say "A" (or "not A") and then note the particular places that didn't jive. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 23:04, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} I agree with Steelviper that we should try to keep as much intra-article consistency as possible. Since there are two versions of the timeline, we mention the most logical one (6BCH) in the article body, while noting the alternative (1BCH) in a footnote. If we run into any new timeline discontinuities, we should act in the same way. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:10, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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==== Option a ====<br />
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Create an own page similar to [[Season two timeline discontinuity]] which contains an explanation with earlier dialogue evidence and can be linked to. This prevents lengthy and duplicate footnotes on every page.<br />
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==== Option b ====<br />
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Put a section at the beginning of [[Hero#Analysis]] which can be linked to. Also prevents duplicate footnotes<br />
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*{{support}} I think this is the easiest solution. I'm against an own article as the issue is relatively small and can easily be explained in the episode article. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:20, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Agreed, this would be easiest and the least intrusive way of doing this. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 16:36, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Simpler is better. A discontinuity article is going to have very low visibility (in terms of being searched/accessed). A footnote in a higher visibility article gives the information a wider audience, and it is easier to find (so long as the footnote is located within a logical article). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 22:59, 22 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
**{{comment}} I meant mainly where to store the overall information (in an own article or on the "Hero" page). I'd create a footnote behind every mention of the date. Like "While "Hero" places the date at 1 BCH, this conflicts with earlier dialogue. For a detailed analysis see..." --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:49, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
*{{support}} Since this discontinuity isn't as big and doesn't span as many episodes as the S2 one does, it doesn't have to be in its own article. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 09:05, 23 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== "Scattered" re-re-re-visted ==<br />
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Sorry to beat this dead horse again. Since we're now taking the dossier at face value, I've tried to change all dates to it. In general it fits, but it places Adama's reinstatement into the Fleet at 23 BCH and his assignment to ''Atlantia'' at 17 BCH. For the Tigh/Adama meeting we go by the podcast note that the meeting took place 20 years ago. Is there anything that says we have to take this literally and can't place it at 23 BCH? And then assume that Adama re-joined the Fleet in the same year? In fact the 23-year date is used on [[Carolanne Adama]], so the timeline isn't consistent with our other articles.<br />
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And what's the source for placing Tigh's reinstatement two years later? I know this is mentioned in the Tigh article, but it's not directly from the episode I think. Going by the [[Saul Tigh]] footnotes, it seems to come solely from the BSG magazine. Also, as it is now, it doesn't make sense that Adama got assigned to ''Atlantia'' with the rank of major 11 BCH. Because we know that he's a major when he gets Tigh back into the Fleet.<br />
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We could change it to this:<br />
*23 BCH: <br />
**Adama and Tigh meet<br />
**Adama reinstated into the Fleet in the same year (so noted in dossier: 54-31=23)<br />
*17 BCH:<br />
**Adama assigned to ''Atlantia'' makes his thousands landing (AoC), gets promoted to major<br />
**Gets Tigh back into the fleet.<br />
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The only point I'm unsure is the time between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement and the quoted two years. The dossier says "Major: Battlestar Atlantia". Maybe that means he was a major on ''Atlantia'', not that he was promoted to the rank on it. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 09:21, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:The document is unfortunately only a short list of Adama's accomplishments in the fleet. It would seem to me, although I'm not certain, that the list is only comprehensive to the point of reassignments, not promotions. In the Navy, it is equally common for an officer to be promoted aboard ship as well as with reassignment, although for higher level positions (such as Commander and Captain), it is increasingly more likely to recieve promotion with reassignment. So I always assumed that Adama was recommissioned as a major, although there's not really any proof of that is there (which begs the question, what was he doing for those six years?). This episode is a continuity nightmare by the way.--[[User:OrionFour|OrionFour]] 14:59, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::He was recommissioned as captain and Viper pilot. That's said explicitly in a deleted scene from "Scattered". The dossier doesn't really contradict on screen information as such, as "Scattered" is pretty vague about dating. We have the "20 years" from the podcast, but that can easily be a rounded value. As said, the two years between Adama's and Tigh's reinstatement comes from the magazine I think, but we usually treat that as "valid until contradicted". So we could either extend that period to 6 years, or we could keep it as two years and assume that Adama got promoted earlier (at the moment I'm favoring that).<br />
::This probably comes down to simple choice unless someone recalls some more information. So we could decide on one, and footnote the alternative. Probably the best way. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 16:05, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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:::My reading is that Adama serves on the tramp freighter from -37 BCH to some point prior to -23 BCH (per the dossier). He meets Tigh in -28 BCH (per "Torn", in which Adama calls Tigh "The man that I've known for the past thirty years"). He is recomissioned in -23 BCH, rank unknown. Tigh is recomissioned in -21 BCH (two years later, per the magazine), by which point Adama holds the rank of major (per the cut scene in "Scattered"). The dossier entry for -17 BCH indicates his transfer to Atlantia, not a promotion. His thousandth landing (on Atlantia, per "Act of Contrition") must take place shortly afterwards.<br />
:::We can date Adama's marriage to Carolanne as follows: Zak dies in -2 BCH (Miniseries). He probably graduated from some kind of military academy, which would make his age at least 22 following the U.S. model. That puts his birth at roughly -24 BCH. From Adama's [[: Image:Primusphoto.jpg|photo]] with his two sons, Lee looks about two years older, putting his birth in -26 BCH.<br />
:::So, I think everything makes perfect sense here. The flashbacks in "Scattered" span seven years from -28 BCH (Adama and Tigh's first meeting) to -21 BCH (Tigh's reinstatement). Adama's comment about meeting Tigh 30 years ago in Torn fits nicely. He probably married Carolanne in -26 BCH, at which point he would have quit his job on the freighter to start a family, and resumed military service three years later, when Zak was old enough to leave with one parent. The only date that has to be fudged is Moore's comment that the "Scattered" flashbacks take place 20 years ago, and this is both the most vague and least reliable piece of information that we have to consider. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:55, 25 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::That sounds good :) I agree that we shouldn't necessarily take behind-the-scenes info over on-screen evidence. Though it can be made fit either way.<br />
::::Two comments though: First, Adama's rank is known from a deleted scene. He starts as captain as well. Second, Adama didn't quit his job with marriage. When he gets the news that he is reinstated, Tigh states "the new wife pulled through". And the two are still on the freighter. The Adamas married while he was a freight monkey and then he joined the Fleet rightaway. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 01:29, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
:::::Nice analysis, all. If we take the "twenty years ago" as a vague statement that could also mean 23 years, Peter's reading fits pretty much perfectly (adjusting it for what Serenity pointed out above, of course). --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 05:57, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
::::::Well, right now we have the meeting at 28 years. We could also place it at 23 years and assume that Adama got recommissioned in the same year. Both versions work, but 28 years fits better with the line that they've known each other for 30 years. This part of the timeline isn't such a mess as some make it out to be. The only major reshuffling is the ''Valkyrie'' mission.<br />
::::::Also regarding Tyrol's "ten years" comment. That might be a rounded value - people often think in 10, 15, 20 years - so I put that as "circa". --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 06:37, 26 October 2007 (CDT)<br />
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== Ancient History ==<br />
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*'''4,000 years BCH:''' The Thirteenth Tribe reportedly leaves the planet Kobol, later leaving a beacon in space and building the Temple of Five (The Eye of Jupiter)[1]. At some undated point, something travels from Earth to Kobol, passing on information about Earth, including a map of its night sky. <br />
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This would be clearer if these 3 items were seperated. The virus on the beacon is an exact match of a virus reported 3000 years ago. This is a major clue in the series and should be given more importance as opposed to being mentioned in passing the way its written here. Also it need to be specified that the Temple is *radio carbon* dated to 4000 years.<br />
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Quote Adama to Roslin "According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Quote Tyrol to Adama "Our initial radio carbon dating suggests the temples at least 4000 years old which lines up with the exodus of the 13th tribe"<br />
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This is potentially confusing since the exodus of the 13th tribe is anything from 3000-4000 years ago (if 13th tribe and 13th colony are to taken as the same thing!). The virus itsself adds more confusion, since it was an exact match then the assumption is that its the same virus since a virus will mutate pretty fast but you would think that in space it is in suspended animation. Therefore its not entirely clear that this quote is saying the beacon is 3000 years old<br />
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Since the "undated" fact is undated, it should be moved outside of the timeline but still within the Ancient History section or preferentially removed entirely since it borders speculation.<br />
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I would suggest that it reads as follows...<br />
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*'''4000 years BCH:''' The Temple of Five is built by the 13th tribe [1]<br />
*'''4000 - 3000 years BCH:''' The 13th tribe/colony leaves Kobol [1] [2]<br />
*'''After 3000 years BCH:''' The beacon is left behind by the 13th colony [2]<br />
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The [1], [2] points to the two quotes listed above.<br />
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Its not exactly clear in which order these occured but it represents the facts as we know them. It is very important that this timeline is listed as clearly as possible since it may well be one of the most crucial bits of information in the show. Although it is commonly assumed that the 13th tribe left Kobol, left a beacon and then built the temple it is not clear from these 2 quotes that this is the correct order of events. You can create other orders based on these quotes so I think its important that preconceptions aren't written into the description of events and the ordering of these events is left up to the reader - as the show intended. --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 16:21, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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:How crucial it is depends on one's preferences. Mine are entirely elsewhere. Anyways, that's what footnotes are for. It's true that it should be left somewhat open, and it's a topic that was always unclear, but it has to be put in ''some'' order for the purpose of the article. Footnotes can give the sources and some explanation, so that the reader can decide what to make of it. They can't be too long, but 1-3 sentences are usually enough to convey the information. I changed it to make the beacon date more ambiguous, but that's said in the footnote. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 18:59, 4 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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12tribes leaving Kobol 2000 years ago is wrong...<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 19:54, 5 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:There are many contradictory quotes on that one. There is a quote that says 2,000 years (you mentioned it), there is one that says 3,000 and one that says 4,000. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 03:57, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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Its only a contradiction if you make the assumption that the 13th tribe left only once - also nobody has ever said that there was only ever 1 thirteeth colony. Although its never been stated, the modern day cylons themselves are obviously a 13th colony/tribe since they have their own homeworld.<br />
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Billy: Uh, well, we won't know for sure until they send a ground team but the initial <br />
estimates have it, uh, on the order of approximately 2,000 years. <br />
Elosha: That's around the time the 13 tribes first left Kobol. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "first", also 13 tribes left Kobol, they aren't neccessarily saying the the legendary "Thirteeth Tribe" was one of them.<br />
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Adama: Why the Scroll of Pythia? <br />
Roslin: Pythia is supposed to have chronicled the original journey of the 13th Tribe on <br />
its way to Earth. <br />
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Notice the use of the term "original" - if there was only one journey then this term would have no meaning and therefore would be pointless to include it.<br />
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Adama: According to Cottle, the virus was an exact match to one reported over 3000 years <br />
ago, right around the time that the 13th colony left Kobol"<br />
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Chief: Our initial radiocarbon dating suggests that the temple's at least 4,000 years <br />
old, which lines up with the exodus of the Thirteenth Tribe. <br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:43, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:The 13th Tribe "'''first''' left Kobol" 2,000 years ago, but also left 3,000 and 4,000 years ago? Now ''that's'' a contradiction... --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:06, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
::Yep. There is a deliberate retcon or dialogue error somewhere; or both. It's possible to reconcile two of the three dates; for example by assuming that part of them left Kobol earlier to build the temple and that the rest left later with the other tribes. But the third will contradict each two you chose. Taking all the dialogue literally and reconciling all three dates is impossible without some serve mental contortions. --[[User:Serenity|Serenity]] 08:31, 6 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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They don't say the 13th tribe left 2000 years ago, they say 13 tribes left. Sorry to keep banging on about the same point and to a certain extent I am inclined to believe its an error of some kind, more likely the history of the colonies has been changed by the writers before season 3 but I don't believe its a script error since Boomer says the same thing...<br />
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Boomer: I'm putting together a lot of pieces from a lot of sources beyond your scriptures. If I'm right, that's the spot where your god supposedly stood and watched Athena throw herself down onto the rocks below out of despair over the exodus of the 13 tribes. <br />
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Even at that point in the series it was clear that the exodus of 13 tribes resulted in 12 colonies (on Kobol pre miniseries, later changed to 12 planets). So the writers knew that there were 12 colonies and yet twice they say 13 tribes left Kobol.<br />
--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:15, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Well, with the first twelve populating the colonies, and the 13th going in their own direction. The (legendary) 13th tribe was one of the tribes. The only reason they're legendary (and not just a plain old tribe) is that they went in a different direction and the rest of the tribes (now colonies) lost track of them. The exodus of the 13 tribes would coincide with the exodus of the 13th tribe. It looks like the exodus was a single event... they just can't seem to keep their dates straight (whether it's 2, 3 or 4K years). --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 07:31, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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RON MOORE COMMENTARY <br />
8/26/2005 -- This notion of the constellations is something that I came up with. I wanted to connect it to our present day mythology of the Zodiac. The show is replete with symbols and references to Zodiacal things. Somehow, these names for these Colonies are not random, there is a connection, and here's the connection. That these people of the thirteenth tribe looked up into the sky and made up these constellations and assigned them to their brethren, the lost tribes. (source: The Home, Part II podcast) <br />
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You can't read much into Adama's 3000 year quote since he says "over 3000" years and he is talking about a virus, not exactly the beacon and since its unknown how the virus behaves in space, how long it takes to mutate into something different and even how long it took for the 13th tribe to get to the LionHeads nebula you can't really say anything for sure about how this fits into the timeline.<br />
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You also agree that at some point "someone" travelled from Earth to Kobol therefore the most obvious solution, which assumes no script errors is as follows<br />
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4000 years: Exodus of 13th tribe who then built the Temple<br />
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# Got to Earth <br />
# Named the constellations after their "lost" brothers<br />
# Went back to Kobol, with information on the Temple and the constellation map<br />
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2000 years: The "reunited" 13 tribes left Kobol to form 12 colonies<br />
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Surely this is the correct way to read the storyline. It makes no assumptions, requires no errors in the script, has no contradictions and interpets the quotes *exactly* as written.<br />
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Your just getting confused with "13th tribe" which reference one tribe, and "13 tribes" which references all 13.<br />
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--[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 07:37, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:Except that if it happened that way, then the knowledge of where the 13th tribe went would be with the twelve colonies (since people who had been to earth would be among the twelve colonies). The tribes always have seemed to correspond to the colonies, so having a thirteenth in the mix would upset the pattern. What's really affecting my thinking (and likely the thinking of others) is the way the exodus pattern unfolded in TOS. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 08:24, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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The knowledge IS with the 12 colonies, the constellation map, the knowledge of the Temple, the chronicle of the original journey also bear in mind that when the 13th colony got to Earth, the other 12 tribes were (according to RON MOORE) considered "lost" --[[User:Swozie|Swozie]] 08:29, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
:This timeline seems to make sense. Maybe we should try asking Brad or MrsRon whether this timeline is correct and there were actually 2 exoduses. --[[User:Catrope|Catrope]]<sup>([[User talk:Catrope|Talk to me]] or [[Special:Emailuser/Catrope|e-mail me]])</sup> 08:58, 7 January 2008 (CST)<br />
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== "Lost Time", and other notes... ==<br />
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I think we should really note that there are various "lost time" events (i.e. "Flight of the Phoenix", "Downloaded", and even those inferred by "He That Believeth In Me") that we should note. Further, I think it would be wise to point out that there might be inaccuracies in this timeline that can never be rectified due to the lack of definitive information. Thoughts? -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:52, 8 May 2008 (UTC)<br />
:I thought "Downloaded" was cleared up on the DVD release? --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 03:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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==BCE occurences==<br />
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[http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=BCE&go=Go This search] gives 10 occurences of the BCE style, all of them in infoboxes on characters making it to Earth.<br />
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Sure the series ends with the note that all these events are supposed to be in the distant past from our perspective, culminating in the long-past settlement of our planet. <br />
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However, shouldn't at least the infoboxes if not the articles alltogether remain within the confines of the series chronology, i.e. use BCH?<br />
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Also, there is a spoiler problem. By adding BCE to all these infoboxes, all these articles give away that Galactica cannot be finding our contemporary earth.<br />
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Finally, the date in question - and note it's the same date on every page is purely an estimation. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:41, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
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: We should not be using BCE at all, since there is nothing that states that the Colonial Calendar lines up exactly with the Earth calendar. Please remember that the Earth calendar has been revised several times in human history, so we've never had a consistent calendar to begin with anyway. As there is no direct correlation between an Earth year being the same as a Colonial year, and as such we should keep all times in BCH (Before Colonial Holocaust) or ACH (After Colonial Holocaust). -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 14:22, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::Well, there is a link between the two systems as the ending of the series is .... years before our present. But that is revealed only in the last few moments of the show and should not form the basis for dates given here. It does make more sense to say Lee Adama died x years after the Cylon holocaust. <br />
::That the Earth calendar (actually is not one Earth calendar) has been revised is of no consequence however, as a) it makes little no differences to the years, b) BC is merely our present Gregorian calendar calculated backwards. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 15:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::That is the only link. There is nothing that supports a direct correlation between how the Colonial calendar works and the Earth calendar (i.e. a Colonial year could be 380 days or more, as seems to be supported by Caprica occuring only ''50'' years before the Fall and not the 52-53 needed, if we're going by the 4,571 days that the First Cylon War took). And yes, the calendar has been modified since its inception as we learn more about the rotation of our planet and other factors, and there are vast differences between the two calendars that cause discrepancies. Just look at the Julian calendar versus the Gregorian calendar. Since we do not know what the discrepancy is between the Colonial calendar and the Second Earth (our real-life) calendar, we should just do away with the whole BCE thing in terms of the BSG universe, since it adds a level of error and complication we do not need. This is something that I honestly do not believe that RDM will ever explain, since that's not how RDM really works at all. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 18:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::We are basically on the same side on the actual issue: do away with BCE.<br />
::::We only disagree about little things you said or rather about their relevance to this issue. As I said, there is no "the Calendar" on earth. Earth rotation only commands the day and that has been pretty much stable.<br />
::::I agree that is probably a discrepancy between year-lengths and day-length if directly compared to ours. TOS was certainly more "realistic" on that account.<br />
::::Back to the issue: can you suggest a ACH wording to replace the current BCE one. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 09:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
:::::I'll go even further.... There's no reason to note they died at all, since that's really a given and there were no special circumstances to their death. There really is no reason to use "died sometime after XXX ACH" in the infobox at all, since you would have to do that to '''every''' infobox for '''every''' character who survived up to the arrived at the new Earth. We should really leave the death section of infoboxes for confirmed deaths, not assumed. However, that's a topic for another talk page. -- [[User:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|Joe Beaudoin]] <sup>[[User talk:Joe Beaudoin Jr.|So say we all]] - [[Battlestar Wiki:Site support|Donate]] - [[bsp:|Battlestar Pegasus]]</sup> 22:55, 2 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
::::::Actually you are right. After all, the whole Wiki variously works under the "state as of the last episode" mode, talking about deceased characters - but from the perspective of 150,000 years later all would be deceased. [[User:Str1977|Str1977]] 08:13, 5 April 2009 (UTC)<br />
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:These are supposed to be 150,000 Earth years, aren't they? That's the time given in the article Ron is reading. -- [[User:Noneofyourbusiness|Noneofyourbusiness]] 17:04, 3 April 2009 (UTC)</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Anders&diff=178305Samuel Anders2009-04-05T08:09:45Z<p>Str1977: </p>
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<div>{{Character Data<br />
|photo=Samuel Anders.jpg<br />
|age=2,000+<br />
|colony=[[Earth_(RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|Original Earth]] (supposedly from [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]])<br />
|birthname=<br />
|callsign= Longshot<br />
|seen= Resistance (episode)<br />
|pseen= Resistance<br />
|death= Killed in nuclear holocaust on Earth - resurrected; <br/>Asphyxiated by [[Number One]] - resurrected; <br/>Flies into the Sun with the fleet, c. 148,000 BCE - permanent death ([[Daybreak, Part II]])<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children=<br />
|marital status=Married to [[Kara Thrace]]<br />
|role=''Galactica''’s [[Hybrid]];<br>Rookie [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot;<br>[[New Caprica Resistance]] fighter;<br>[[Caprica Resistance]] leader;<br>Professional [[Pyramid (RDM)|pyramid]] player;<br/>[[Resurrection (RDM)|Resurrection]] scientist<br />
|rank= Ensign<br />
|actor=[[Michael Trucco]]<br />
|5cylon=y<br />
|name= Samuel T. Anders<br />
}}<br />
'''Samuel T. "Longshot" Anders''' is a [[rook]] Viper pilot aboard ''Galactica'' and husband to Captain [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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On Caprica, Anders was a sports hero, having been captain of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. After the Cylon occupartion, he became leader of the human resistance, until he is recued by his future wife. [[Crossroads, Part II|Late]], he becomes aware of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as one of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] "[[Final Five]]".<br />
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After suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the base of his brain the memories of his life as a Cylon on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] were restored. He tried in the limit amount of time before essential surgery to relay the history of the Final Five to fellow Cylons [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. After a failed attempt to jump start his brain via a [[datastream]] and Hybrid tank installed on ''Galactica'', he began to act very much like a Hybrid and he has begun electrically interacting with ''Galactica''. He has effectively become ''Galactica'''s [[Hybrid]]. He dies when under Admiral Adama's orders, he flies ''Galactica'' and her fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships.<br />
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During his life on earth, he also composed [[The Music|a song]] identical to the modern "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. This song has also been arrived at by [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Hera Agathon]] independently, pointing towards the characters being linked (with Bob Dylan) to the same "ethereal source".<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Life on Earth===<br />
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Samuel was born into the Cylon [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on Earth over 2,000 years ago. He worked at a scientific research facility, and also composed [[The Music|a song]] which he played for his lover and for his fellow researchers, [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]<ref>In his "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" podcast commentary, Ronald D. Moore explained that in the Battlestar universe Anders (not Bob Dylan) wrote the song, but acknowledged that they failed to adequatly get that point across to the audience.</ref>. Warned of a coming holocaust by [[Virtual beings#The Final Five's Virtual Beings|an image of a woman]] no one else could see, he worked with his four friends to recreate the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology used by their ancestors. When the nuclear attack on Earth came, the five of them were downloaded into new bodies on a ship in orbit. <br />
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Backtracking the path their ancestors used to find Earth, the five rediscovered the [[Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] and found their way to the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] to warn the humans of the dangers of making robotic slaves, but arrived too late to prevent the [[First Cylon War]] because their vessel traveled at relativistic, subliminal speeds. They designed humanoid bodies for the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] in exchange for signing a cease fire with the humans, and gave resurrection technology to their humanoid Cylon "children". They also embraced the monotheistic beliefs of the Centurions. Their first creation, [[Number One]], turned against the five and killed them by asphyxiation, then [[Boxing|boxed]] their consciousnesses, later releasing them into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories to live through the [[Cylon Attack]] as humans in the hopes of teaching them a lesson, so that they would agree with his ideologies after they were killed and resurrected again.<br />
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The background fabricated for Anders by Number One included being born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] and attending [[Noyse Elementary School]]. <br />
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===On Caprica===<br />
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He became a [[Pyramid]] player for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] and was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when Caprica was attacked during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon assault on the Colonies]]. The high-altitude shielded them from the blasts of the nuclear attacks and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ad hoc resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammunition and supplies in the hopes of surviving and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Agathon and Thrace two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Anders's main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Before leaving, Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylons' re-appropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all are astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired (Downloaded).<br />
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== Rescue and Joining the Fleet ==<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters - the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons have left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders's relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and [[Lee Adama]].<br />
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[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer available to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and becomes a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]). After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']] and Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around [[New Caprica City]]. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey Brynn]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the building ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret tribunal assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Along with [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]], he is among the more scrupulous members and soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps by obtaining a commission and joining the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot trainee]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]), initially flying Raptors before transitioning to Vipers.<br />
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== Revelation ==<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider determines that he is a Cylon and as a result the Raiders abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet, forcing the whole Cylon fleet to retreat. After the battle, he recalls his experience with the Cylon Raider to the others, and wonders whether he just made a "nugget mistake" or if he was physically incapable of firing. Anders, along with the others, agree to kill themselves before they betray the humans ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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Anders joins the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Three weeks into the mission, he questions Thrace's command style, forcing her to open up more about her mission with her crew ([[The Ties That Bind]]). A week later they encounter a damaged Heavy Raider with [[Number Two|a copy of Leoben Conoy]] aboard. Thrace allows him aboard against the crew's wishes, because she wants his help in finding Earth. When Anders sees how physically close the two are, he attacks him until Marines separate them. Later, Anders asks Conoy what he wants from Thrace. Conoy replies that he seeks to understand Thrace's [[The Destiny|unexplained destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy says otherwise and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a professional Pyramid player ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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During the mutiny aboard the ''Demetrius'' Anders sides with Thrace, going as far as to shoot [[Felix Gaeta]] in the knee to prevent him from jumping back to ''Galactica''. After accompanying Thrace to a disabled Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Anders involves himself in an execution of a [[Number Six]] model who had moments before murdered [[Jean Barolay]]. The idea of [[Natalie]] assisting to pull the trigger on another of her models disturbs him. Later into the mission, however, he consoles a dying [[Number Eight]] when [[Sharon Agathon]] fails to. He then becomes visibly worried when Thrace, Natalie and Sharon deduce that the [[Final Five]] have come from and know the way back to Earth, and propose a resurrection of the [[Number Three]] model to reveal the Five's identities ([[Faith]]). Back on ''Galactica'', Anders is distraught over the loss of Gaeta's leg, talking of how Gaeta [[Gaeta's Lament|sings]] all the time to cope with his pain, but can't bring himself to talk to Gaeta about it ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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During a confrontation with their erstwhile Cylon allies — now lead by the unboxed [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] — interim President Lee Adama forcefully persuades Colonel Tigh to give up the identities of the other Final Five aboard ''Galactica'', the safety of the Fleet hanging on it. Anders is arrested along with Tyrol, and they join Tigh in the launch tube airlock, under threat of being spaced in the showdown. Just as Adama is about to follow through on his threat, Thrace averts the execution with news that the three Cylons have given them the way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Anders and his fellow Cylons unexpectedly receive a full amnesty from President Adama, and are part of the landing party that finds Earth in a post-apocalyptic state ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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On the devastated Earth, Anders discovers a guitar neck. Handling it, he remembers performing "[[The Music|All Along the Watchtower]]" for his lover, as well as his other friends ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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When [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]] enact a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup]] to overthrow the fleet's [[William Adama|military]] and [[Laura Roslin|civilian]] leadership, Anders is abducted by his former wingman [[Diana Seelix]] and several co-conspirators and taken to the specially designed Cylon holding cell to be held as a hostage ([[The Oath]]). During a rescue attempt staged by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders suffers a bullet wound to the back of the neck<ref>This injury was written into the show after Michael Trucco was involved in a near-fatal car accident during the halt in production observed during the 2007 writers strike. The accident left Trucco with a prominent scar stretching the entire length of the back of his neck.</ref> and has to be carried to sickbay by Thrace and [[Romo Lampkin]] ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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The bullet entered his head, but in doing so it also unlocked previously inaccessible memories of his past. Although he suffers through a steadily worsening bout of [[w:Aphasia|Aphasia]] ("word salad"), he explains some of what he learns from his memories, elaborating on the history of the Final Five and their betrayal by their first creation, Number One, otherwise known as [[John Cavil]]. Before Anders can explain any more, he is taken to surgery to have the bullet removed so he does not suffer another seizure and die of a potential brain hemorrhage. He refuses treatment, fearing he may lose his restored memories, but Kara Thrace, still being his lawful wife, orders Dr. Cottle to remove the bullet anyway. The bullet is safely removed, but when Anders doesn't wake up as soon as expected an EEG is run on him. It is discovered he has almost no brain activity ([[No Exit]]). He is visited by [[Ellen Tigh]] when she returns aboard ''[[Galactica]],'' and when a referendum is tabled among the Final Five as to whether they should say with the fleet or strike out on their own, Saul Tigh votes "stay" on Anders' behalf, citing his ranting warning to the Five as he was being wheeled into the OR: "stay with the fleet" ([[Deadlock]]). When Thrace visits him some time later his eyes are seen to be open and there is a flurry of brainwave activity seen on the monitors around his bedside, though he does not show any signs of cognitive function just yet. An Eight by Ander's bedside (not Athena) surmises that his brain may simply be "rebooting," and using the downtime to repair itself. Dr. Cottle is dismissive of this idea. However, the eight also suggest inserting Anders into the datastream to jump start his brain. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).<br />
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Later, acting on the Eight's idea the Cylons immerse him in a Hybrid pool much like those on Cylon baseships and connect him to both the [[datastream]]. While connected to the stream he begins mimicking the mannerisms of the baseship [[Hybrid]]s, down to the incoherent (to casual observers) but prophetic ramblings. His wife Captain Kara Thrace visits him and request to be alone with him. Saying her goodbyes she attempts to kill him by gunshot to the head. Anders in reflex action catches and almost crushes Thrace's forearm and tells her as another Basestar Hybrid had that she is the Harbinger of Death. As he does so power fluctuations, that has been going on for sometime on Galactica grow much worse, including the surging power levels of the main engines. Anders releases Thrace and the power fluctuations subside but do not end. Thrace presumably called the Cylons and Col. Tigh to assess the situation. It is determined that Anders is directly interacting with and ''Galactica''’s power grid, inadvertently (but not the firewalled computers) via the Cylon organic resin applied to her superstructure for repair purposes. It is theoretically possible for Anders to jump the ship on his own just like a Hybrid on a Baseship. Anders has effectively become the Hybrid of ''Galactica''. Col. Tigh orders that he be disconnected. Just before he is he says "All this has happened before, and will happen again..." Removed from the datastream, Anders reverts to his comatose state. Later Kara Thrace once again visits her husband, accepting that the "old Anders" is never coming back, but she believes there is a patter in the drawing by Hera Agathon that Hera gave her that turned out to be musical notes for a song Thrace's father played for her as a child. She is determined to get answers from Hybrid Anders and reconnects him to talk to him. When he is plugged back in by [[Kara Thrace]] the power surges briefly return but then subside to nothing and Samuel Anders vocalizes the line of code "New command" ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]). It is not known for sure as of that episode that Anders will recover or not. His wife has taken the position that he will not and has accepted that as fact.<br />
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When he is visited again by Thrace and Admiral Adama he subconsciously flashes back to his time on Caprica as captain of the Buccaneers. He remembers an instance when he was in his team's locker room just after a game being interviewed by a sports reporter. The woman questions him on whether or not he would feel his career would be complete if he retired without ever leading the Buccaneers to a championship. Anders candidly responds by telling the reporter that in actuality, he cares little for the fame and the glamor associated with the game and more for the subtler aspects of it often missed amid the glitz. He speaks of his passion for experiencing "the perfection of creation" through his plays and movements, relating the sport to more mathematical concepts like physics; a brief moment where Samuel Anders the inventor broke through the cover of Samuel Anders the sports star ([[Daybreak, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders is instrumental in the attack on [[The Colony]], confusing its Hybrid at a crucial moment and disabling all the weapons. He is later present when [[Caprica|Caprica Six]] and [[Baltar]] return to the CIC with [[Hera]] and fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]]. After the successful return of ''Galactica'' to the new planet, Adama has him pilot the fleet and all their technology into the sun in order to have them start over. Before he dies, he briefly flashes back to his interview prior to the fall, and Kara says a tearful goodbye to him, returning to him her dog tags and telling him that she loves him. He whispers "I'll see you on the other side," paralleling Kara's final words to [[Lee Adama]] when she died. ([[Daybreak, Part II]], [[Maelstrom]]). After all of the ships are abandoned, Anders pilots the ships into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and her Fleet. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], his death is permanent.<br />
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==Attitudes toward humans==<br />
Despite his revelation to himself as a Cylon and his acceptance of it and the beating he endured during the mutiny, he seems to have remained loyal to the humans. After his discovery of his Cylon nature but before he recovered his first hand memories of his life before he was killed by Cavil and had his memories fabricated, he has displayed no hostility to them as a whole and in fact seems to be understanding of their point of view. This is characteristic of his sense of justice even when he was a Resistance fighter when he quickly accepted the Cylon Caprica Sharon, the future [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], as genuinely fighting on the human's side. After the Exodus from [[New Caprica]] he did participate in the secret trials and executions of those thought to be collaborators but he soon lost his taste for revenge and decline to participate any longer. It is not known if he has ever uttered a statement that could be construed as anti-human. Indeed, just before beaten by mutinous crewmen that [[Diana Seelix]] had arranged to ambush him, he was apologetic for any misunderstanding of a romantic nature between them. ([[The Oath]]) Now that he has recovered his first hand memories of his previous life on Earth and since then, it is not known what would be his attitude toward the humans if he recovers from his vegetative state, but given his and the other Final Five's efforts to halt the Cylon attack on the Colonies during the first Cylon War and describing the genocidal Cavil's morality as twisted ([[No Exit]]) it seems to be favorable.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' also has a character named Anders. Like Sam, he was a machine who imitated humans almost perfectly. The PKD character was discovered and "retired" by human authorities, much like what almost happened to Sam in [[Revelations]] and [[The Oath]].<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Seasons 3 and 4 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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*There was a human character with the surname Anders, callsign [["Jolly" Anders|Jolly]], in the [[Miniseries]], but the two characters cannot be related.<br />
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'''Samuel T. "Longshot" Anders''' is a [[rook]] Viper pilot aboard ''Galactica'' and husband to Captain [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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On Caprica, Anders was a sports hero, having been captain of the [[Caprica Buccaneers]]. After the Cylon occupartion, he became leader of the human resistance, until he is recued by his future wife. [[Crossroads, Part II|Late]], he becomes aware of his [[Humanoid Cylon|true nature]] as one of the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] "[[Final Five]]".<br />
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After suffering a near fatal gunshot wound to the base of his brain the memories of his life as a Cylon on [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] were restored. He tried in the limit amount of time before essential surgery to relay the history of the Final Five to fellow Cylons [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]]. After a failed attempt to jump start his brain via a [[datastream]] and Hybrid tank installed on ''Galactica'', he began to act very much like a Hybrid and he has begun electrically interacting with ''Galactica''. He has effectively become ''Galactica'''s [[Hybrid]]. He dies when under Admiral Adama's orders, he flies ''Galactica'' and her fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships.<br />
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During his life on earth, he also composed [[The Music|a song]] identical to the modern "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan. This song has also been arrived at by [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Hera Agathon]] independently, pointing towards the characters being linked (with Bob Dylan) to the same "ethereal source".<ref>http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=164</ref> <br />
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==Biography==<br />
===Life on Earth===<br />
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Samuel was born into the Cylon [[Thirteenth Tribe (RDM)|Thirteenth Tribe]] on Earth over 2,000 years ago. He worked at a scientific research facility, and also composed [[The Music|a song]] which he played for his lover and for his fellow researchers, [[Saul Tigh]], [[Ellen Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], and [[Tory Foster]]<ref>In his "[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]" podcast commentary, Ronald D. Moore explained that in the Battlestar universe Anders (not Bob Dylan) wrote the song, but acknowledged that they failed to adequatly get that point across to the audience.</ref>. Warned of a coming holocaust by [[Virtual beings#The Final Five's Virtual Beings|an image of a woman]] no one else could see, he worked with his four friends to recreate the [[Resurrection (RDM)|resurrection]] technology used by their ancestors. When the nuclear attack on Earth came, the five of them were downloaded into new bodies on a ship in orbit. <br />
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Backtracking the path their ancestors used to find Earth, the five rediscovered the [[Temple of Five|Temple of Hopes]] and found their way to the [[Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] to warn the humans of the dangers of making robotic slaves, but arrived too late to prevent the [[First Cylon War]] because their vessel traveled at relativistic, subliminal speeds. They designed humanoid bodies for the [[Cylon Centurion Model 0005|Cylon Centurions]] in exchange for signing a cease fire with the humans, and gave resurrection technology to their humanoid Cylon "children". They also embraced the monotheistic beliefs of the Centurions. Their first creation, [[Number One]], turned against the five and killed them by asphyxiation, then [[Boxing|boxed]] their consciousnesses, later releasing them into the Twelve Colonies one by one with fake memories to live through the [[Cylon Attack]] as humans in the hopes of teaching them a lesson, so that they would agree with his ideologies after they were killed and resurrected again.<br />
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The background fabricated for Anders by Number One included being born on [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Picon|Picon]] and attending [[Noyse Elementary School]]. <br />
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===On Caprica===<br />
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He became a [[Pyramid]] player for the [[Caprica Buccaneers]] and was leading his team in high-altitude training in the mountains outside of [[Delphi]] when Caprica was attacked during the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon assault on the Colonies]]. The high-altitude shielded them from the blasts of the nuclear attacks and most of the radioactive fallout that followed. He and the Buccaneers become ad hoc resistance fighters from that point forward, raiding armories and collecting caches of weapons, [[anti-radiation medication]], ammunition and supplies in the hopes of surviving and defending themselves against the Cylons.<br />
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[[image:Resistance-Anders_Starbuck.jpg|thumb|left|'''Anders''' and [[Kara Thrace]] play [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] at the [[Caprica Resistance]]'s HQ on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] in "[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]".]]<br />
Anders was able to rally upwards of 100 people, mostly hikers and survivalists, to his resistance against the Cylons and from the former [[Delphi Union High School]] he was able to strike back at the Cylons for nine months. Unlike [[Karl Agathon]], the Caprica-based (and pregnant) [[Sharon Agathon|Sharon Valerii]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders seems to be focused more on surviving on Caprica than he is with leaving the planet.<br />
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Anders and his resistance members encounter Agathon and Thrace two months after the initial Cylon attack ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]). Anders's main focus for a time is keeping himself and his resistance movement alive long enough for Thrace to return to Caprica once again with reinforcements from ''Galactica'' and evacuate them. Before leaving, Thrace gives him her [[Identification tags|Fleet ID tags]] as a promise that she would come back for him. While waiting for rescue, Anders plans to locate and destroy as many Cylon hybrid-producing "farms" as possible ([[The Farm]]).<br />
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Anders and the resistance movement conduct acts of terrorism against the Cylons after they appropriate Delphi for their own. His aim was to scare the Cylons into believing there is no safe place for them and to kill them in the most gruesome way possible so they remember when they are reborn what it is like to die violently, like in an explosion ([[Downloaded]]).<br />
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Following the Cylons' re-appropriation of Delphi, Anders and his fighters continue their insurgency, and carry out a series of attacks on the Cylons, the most notable of which was the destruction of a café which kill roughly 40 Cylons. After planting the bomb in a garage, Anders is trapped with the bomb after defending it from a Centurion. Hiding behind a car on the other side of the garage, Anders is mostly protected from the blast but buried under rubble. Later found by [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] and [[Number Three]]. Anders is spared, as he would be a useful source of information. When [[Caprica-Six]] talks about genocide and God's love, Anders uses the opening to try and kill Number Three, but is stopped by Boomer. Three is more than willing to take revenge, but all are astonished when Caprica-Six kills Three. Heeding Six's orders to get out, Anders flees, still puzzled by what had transpired (Downloaded).<br />
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== Rescue and Joining the Fleet ==<br />
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Anders survives an assault by the Cylons at the resistance's headquarters -- the same morning that the Caprica [[SAR]] team lands nearby. The Cylons assaulted the remnants of the Resistance as they head for the Raptors ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]), forcing them to go to higher ground. After the Cylons stop attacking them, Thrace (leading the rescue team) fears the worst. Anders and Thrace promise to kill each other so that the Cylons would be unable to put them in one of their [[farms]]. Miraculously, a [[Cavil|mysterious man]] appears to tell the team that the Cylons have left the Colonies. <br />
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Thrace and Anders's relationship picks up where it left off, forcing a rift to occur between Thrace and [[Lee Adama]].<br />
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[[Image:Anders LDYBPII.JPG|thumb|Ill Anders playing pyramid with his teammates, moments before being tackled from behind ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A year later, now married to Thrace on [[New Caprica]], Anders develops [[Wikipedia:pneumonia|pneumonia]], forcing Thrace to beg Lee Adama to release some [[antibiotics]] reserved for ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''' pilots. After the Cylons occupy New Caprica, Anders is visited by a copy of [[Leoben Conoy]] who inquires on Kara Thrace's whereabouts ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). Since the Cylons had forced ''Pegasus'' and the defense fleet away from New Caprica, the antibiotics are no longer available to help Anders.<br />
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Anders recovers from his sickness and becomes a leader of the [[New Caprica Resistance]], along with [[Saul Tigh]] and [[Galen Tyrol]]. Thrace was taken from him sometime after the occupation, and he is unsure if she is still alive ([[Occupation]]).<br />
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Four months into the occupation, contact is made with a Raptor and a rescue plan is put in motion. Anders meets ''Galactica'''s liaison officer [[Sharon Agathon]] in [[Breeders Canyon]], and the group is ambushed by Cylon Centurions ([[Precipice]]). After the Centurions are neutralized, a map is found on a dead [[Humanoid Cylon|'skinjob']] and Anders realizes that the map is the one given to [[Ellen Tigh]] to destroy in a heating fire. Tigh is then suspected of collaborating with the Cylons.<br />
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Later, Anders is charged by Laura Roslin with protecting [[Maya]] and the Cylon-human hybrid baby [[Hera Agathon|Hera]] ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders then tells [[Saul Tigh]] about his [[Ellen Tigh|wife]]'s betrayal. He tells Tigh that if he doesn't "take care" of the problem, someone else will. After ''Galactica'' jumps into orbit, Anders and a group of resistance fighters set off multiple bombs around [[New Caprica City]]. They then retrieve a cache of weapons hidden under the Pyramid court in order storm the [[New Caprica Detention Center|detention center]] and free the humans imprisoned within. Inside the detention center, Anders and a team of Marines find an unconscious Kara Thrace in her apartment style prison cell. Anders begins to carry Thrace out of the center but is interrupted after Thrace regains consciousness and runs back to retrieve her daughter, [[Kacey Brynn]]. Anders finds Thrace and Kacey back at the apartment, and leads both out of the building ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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Shortly following the Fleet's abandonment of New Caprica, Anders is brought into the [[The Circle|Circle]], a secret tribunal assembled by President [[Tom Zarek]] for the purpose of judging and executing those who had collaborated with the Cylons during the occupation. Along with [[Galen Tyrol|Chief Tyrol]], he is among the more scrupulous members and soon becomes uncomfortable with the Circle's actions and leaves the group. Thrace accepts the Circle's invitation to replace Anders, an act her husband sees as a personal betrayal. He hands back Thrace's ID tag, saying he doesn't want it anymore. Thrace and Anders are still husband and wife, but the combination of Thrace's joining the Circle and her feelings for Lee Adama heavily strains their marriage. He eventually moves off ''Galactica'' to the ''[[Salpica]]'' ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]), which limits their contact to occasional visits per shuttle or participation in critical missions ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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The death of his wife ([[Maelstrom]]) weighs heavily on Anders. Two weeks later he is found drunk on the hangar deck, standing atop of a Viper and playing with a [[cubit]]. When Lee Adama is tries to get Anders to come down, he slips, falls and breaks one of his legs. Later, Anders joins Adama at the [[memorial wall]] where Adama has put up Kara Thrace's picture ([[The Son Also Rises]]). Shortly after this, Anders decides to follow in his wife's footsteps by obtaining a commission and joining the Fleet as a [[nugget|pilot trainee]] ([[Crossroads, Part I]]), initially flying Raptors before transitioning to Vipers.<br />
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== Revelation ==<br />
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Not long after he begins a relationship with [[Tory Foster]], he realizes that the pair of them are experiencing [[The Music|hearing something unusual]]. Later on, he discovers that Tyrol hears the strange sounds as well, but does not get the opportunity to discuss it with him. When Anders, along with Tyrol, Foster and Saul Tigh find themselves drawn to a room shortly after the Fleet arrives at the [[Ionian nebula]], they instinctively realized that they are four of the [[Final Five]] Cylons. However, both he and Tigh agree that their lives up until that point were not in vain, and the four wordlessly agree to continue their allegiance to the Colonies ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
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[[Image:Ander's red eye.jpg|thumb|Anders's "red eye" moment.]]<br />
He participates in the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], finding himself face to face with a Cylon [[Raider (RDM)|Raider]] that he fails to destroy because his weapon safeties are enabled. The fortuitous act results in the Raider scanning Anders, whose eye flickers red. The Raider determines that he is a Cylon and as a result the Raiders abruptly abort their attack on the Fleet, forcing the whole Cylon fleet to retreat. After the battle, he recalls his experience with the Cylon Raider to the others, and wonders whether he just made a "nugget mistake" or if he was physically incapable of firing. Anders, along with the others, agree to kill themselves before they betray the humans ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
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Anders joins the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Three weeks into the mission, he questions Thrace's command style, forcing her to open up more about her mission with her crew ([[The Ties That Bind]]). A week later they encounter a damaged Heavy Raider with [[Number Two|a copy of Leoben Conoy]] aboard. Thrace allows him aboard against the crew's wishes, because she wants his help in finding Earth. When Anders sees how physically close the two are, he attacks him until Marines separate them. Later, Anders asks Conoy what he wants from Thrace. Conoy replies that he seeks to understand Thrace's [[The Destiny|unexplained destiny]], which Anders doesn't consider good enough. Conoy says otherwise and that Anders might have his own destiny, beyond his relatively inconsequential life as a professional Pyramid player ([[The Road Less Traveled]]).<br />
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During the mutiny aboard the ''Demetrius'' Anders sides with Thrace, going as far as to shoot [[Felix Gaeta]] in the knee to prevent him from jumping back to ''Galactica''. After accompanying Thrace to a disabled Cylon [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]], Anders involves himself in an execution of a [[Number Six]] model who had moments before murdered [[Jean Barolay]]. The idea of [[Natalie]] assisting to pull the trigger on another of her models disturbs him. Later into the mission, however, he consoles a dying [[Number Eight]] when [[Sharon Agathon]] fails to. He then becomes visibly worried when Thrace, Natalie and Sharon deduce that the [[Final Five]] have come from and know the way back to Earth, and propose a resurrection of the [[Number Three]] model to reveal the Five's identities ([[Faith]]). Back on ''Galactica'', Anders is distraught over the loss of Gaeta's leg, talking of how Gaeta [[Gaeta's Lament|sings]] all the time to cope with his pain, but can't bring himself to talk to Gaeta about it ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]).<br />
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During a confrontation with their erstwhile Cylon allies — now lead by the unboxed [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|D'Anna Biers]] — interim President Lee Adama forcefully persuades Colonel Tigh to give up the identities of the other Final Five aboard ''Galactica'', the safety of the Fleet hanging on it. Anders is arrested along with Tyrol, and they join Tigh in the launch tube airlock, under threat of being spaced in the showdown. Just as Adama is about to follow through on his threat, Thrace averts the execution with news that the three Cylons have given them the way to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]]. Anders and his fellow Cylons unexpectedly receive a full amnesty from President Adama, and are part of the landing party that finds Earth in a post-apocalyptic state ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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On the devastated Earth, Anders discovers a guitar neck. Handling it, he remembers performing "[[The Music|All Along the Watchtower]]" for his lover, as well as his other friends ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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When [[Felix Gaeta]] and [[Tom Zarek]] enact a [[Gaeta's Mutiny|coup]] to overthrow the fleet's [[William Adama|military]] and [[Laura Roslin|civilian]] leadership, Anders is abducted by his former wingman [[Diana Seelix]] and several co-conspirators and taken to the specially designed Cylon holding cell to be held as a hostage ([[The Oath]]). During a rescue attempt staged by [[Lee Adama]] and [[Kara Thrace]], Anders suffers a bullet wound to the back of the neck<ref>This injury was written into the show after Michael Trucco was involved in a near-fatal car accident during the halt in production observed during the 2007 writers strike. The accident left Trucco with a prominent scar stretching the entire length of the back of his neck.</ref> and has to be carried to sickbay by Thrace and [[Romo Lampkin]] ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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The bullet entered his head, but in doing so it also unlocked previously inaccessible memories of his past. Although he suffers through a steadily worsening bout of [[w:Aphasia|Aphasia]] ("word salad"), he explains some of what he learns from his memories, elaborating on the history of the Final Five and their betrayal by their first creation, Number One, otherwise known as [[John Cavil]]. Before Anders can explain any more, he is taken to surgery to have the bullet removed so he does not suffer another seizure and die of a potential brain hemorrhage. He refuses treatment, fearing he may lose his restored memories, but Kara Thrace, still being his lawful wife, orders Dr. Cottle to remove the bullet anyway. The bullet is safely removed, but when Anders doesn't wake up as soon as expected an EEG is run on him. It is discovered he has almost no brain activity ([[No Exit]]). He is visited by [[Ellen Tigh]] when she returns aboard ''[[Galactica]],'' and when a referendum is tabled among the Final Five as to whether they should say with the fleet or strike out on their own, Saul Tigh votes "stay" on Anders' behalf, citing his ranting warning to the Five as he was being wheeled into the OR: "stay with the fleet" ([[Deadlock]]). When Thrace visits him some time later his eyes are seen to be open and there is a flurry of brainwave activity seen on the monitors around his bedside, though he does not show any signs of cognitive function just yet. An Eight by Ander's bedside (not Athena) surmises that his brain may simply be "rebooting," and using the downtime to repair itself. Dr. Cottle is dismissive of this idea. However, the eight also suggest inserting Anders into the datastream to jump start his brain. ([[Someone to Watch Over Me]]).<br />
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Later, acting on the Eight's idea the Cylons immerse him in a Hybrid pool much like those on Cylon baseships and connect him to both the [[datastream]]. While connected to the stream he begins mimicking the mannerisms of the baseship [[Hybrid]]s, down to the incoherent (to casual observers) but prophetic ramblings. His wife Captain Kara Thrace visits him and request to be alone with him. Saying her goodbyes she attempts to kill him by gunshot to the head. Anders in reflex action catches and almost crushes Thrace's forearm and tells her as another Basestar Hybrid had that she is the Harbinger of Death. As he does so power fluctuations, that has been going on for sometime on Galactica grow much worse, including the surging power levels of the main engines. Anders releases Thrace and the power fluctuations subside but do not end. Thrace presumably called the Cylons and Col. Tigh to assess the situation. It is determined that Anders is directly interacting with and ''Galactica''’s power grid, inadvertently (but not the firewalled computers) via the Cylon organic resin applied to her superstructure for repair purposes. It is theoretically possible for Anders to jump the ship on his own just like a Hybrid on a Baseship. Anders has effectively become the Hybrid of ''Galactica''. Col. Tigh orders that he be disconnected. Just before he is he says "All this has happened before, and will happen again..." Removed from the datastream, Anders reverts to his comatose state. Later Kara Thrace once again visits her husband, accepting that the "old Anders" is never coming back, but she believes there is a patter in the drawing by Hera Agathon that Hera gave her that turned out to be musical notes for a song Thrace's father played for her as a child. She is determined to get answers from Hybrid Anders and reconnects him to talk to him. When he is plugged back in by [[Kara Thrace]] the power surges briefly return but then subside to nothing and Samuel Anders vocalizes the line of code "New command". <!-- During his ramblings he reiterates the prophecy foretold about Thrace by the [[First Hybrid]] and the Hybrid aboard the rebel Basestar before stabilizing and saying "new command" --> ([[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]). It is not known for sure as of that episode that Anders will recover or not. His wife has taken the position that he will not and has accepted that as fact.<br />
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When he is visited again by Thrace and Admiral Adama he subconsciously flashes back to his time on Caprica as captain of the Buccaneers. He remembers an instance when he was in his team's locker room just after a game being interviewed by a sports reporter. The woman questions him on whether or not he would feel his career would be complete if he retired without ever leading the Buccaneers to a championship. Anders candidly responds by telling the reporter that in actuality, he cares little for the fame and the glamor associated with the game and more for the subtler aspects of it often missed amid the glitz. He speaks of his passion for experiencing "the perfection of creation" through his plays and movements, relating the sport to more mathematical concepts like physics; a brief moment where Samuel Anders the inventor broke through the cover of Samuel Anders the sports star ([[Daybreak, Part I]]).<br />
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Anders is instrumental in the attack on [[The Colony]], confusing its Hybrid at a crucial moment and disabling all the weapons. He is later present when [[Caprica|Caprica Six]] and [[Baltar]] return to the CIC with [[Hera]] and fulfill the [[External visions|Opera House Prophecy]]. After the successful return of ''Galactica'' to the new planet, Adama has him pilot the fleet and all their technology into the sun in order to have them start over. Before he dies, he briefly flashes back to his interview prior to the fall, and Kara says a tearful goodbye to him, returning to him her dog tags and telling him that she loves him. He whispers "I'll see you on the other side," paralleling Kara's final words to [[Lee Adama]] when she died. ([[Daybreak, Part II]], [[Maelstrom]]). After all of the ships are abandoned, Anders pilots the ships into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and her Fleet. With the destruction of the [[Resurrection Hub]], his death is permanent.<br />
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==Attitudes toward humans==<br />
Despite his revelation to himself as a Cylon and his acceptance of it and the beating he endured during the mutiny, he seems to have remained loyal to the humans. After his discovery of his Cylon nature but before he recovered his first hand memories of his life before he was killed by Cavil and had his memories fabricated, he has displayed no hostility to them as a whole and in fact seems to be understanding of their point of view. This is characteristic of his sense of justice even when he was a Resistance fighter when he quickly accepted the Cylon Caprica Sharon, the future [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], as genuinely fighting on the human's side. After the Exodus from [[New Caprica]] he did participate in the secret trials and executions of those thought to be collaborators but he soon lost his taste for revenge and decline to participate any longer. It is not known if he has ever uttered a statement that could be construed as anti-human. Indeed, just before beaten by mutinous crewmen that [[Diana Seelix]] had arranged to ambush him, he was apologetic for any misunderstanding of a romantic nature between them. ([[The Oath]]) Now that he has recovered his first hand memories of his previous life on Earth and since then, it is not known what would be his attitude toward the humans if he recovers from his vegetative state, but given his and the other Final Five's efforts to halt the Cylon attack on the Colonies during the first Cylon War and describing the genocidal Cavil's morality as twisted ([[No Exit]]) it seems to be favorable.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*"Ander" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Man" (a well known example would be that "Anderson" means "Son of Andrew/Andreas/etc", the name being a descendant of Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’, genitive andros). Fitting, given that Anders is leading the last free humans alive on Caprica in a resistance against the Cylons: it's literally a fight of "Man" versus Machines. The revelation of Anders as a Cylon makes this ironic.<br />
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*Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' also has a character named Anders. Like Sam, he was a machine who imitated humans almost perfectly. The PKD character was discovered and "retired" by human authorities, much like what almost happened to Sam in [[Revelations]] and [[The Oath]].<br />
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*The tattoo that Anders has on his right arm in Seasons 3 and 4 is his "wedding band". He got it after he married [[Kara Thrace]], who also has a similar tattoo, but it is on her left arm. They match up to form one set of wings and the circles overlap when they're facing each other. Both of them have half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well.<br />
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*There was a human character with the surname Anders, callsign [["Jolly" Anders|Jolly]], in the [[Miniseries]], but the two characters cannot be related.<br />
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'''Jacob Cantrell''' was [[Sagittaron]]'s representative to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]] ("[[The Ties That Bind]]", "[[Escape Velocity]]", "[[Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]") prior to his assassination along with the other Quorum members during the Gaeta-Zarek mutiny ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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When Roslin goes missing after a Cylon baseship she visits unexpectedly jumps away, the Quorum squabbles over her successor. Cantrell pointedly asks [[Lee Adama]] whether Admiral Adama would support [[Tom Zarek]] or the government if he were to become president. After some hesitation Adama replies that he wouldn't, leading to more shouting ([[Sine Qua Non]]). <br />
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Following the discovery and evacuation of Earth, Roslin considers Cantrell the key to persuading the Quorum in favor of an alliance with the rebel Cylons, but he is one of the strongest voices against the plan ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). <br />
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Later, after Lieutenant [[Felix Gaeta]] and Zarek stage a mutiny aboard [[Galactica]] and Zarek turns to the Quorum for support (minus [[Lee Adama]] who was at large aboard ''Galactica''), the Quorum rebuffs him and Cantrell orders him to leave, pointedly addressing Zarek as the Vice President. Zarek calmly leaves the room and orders the marines outside the door to execute all Quorum members present ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. He ends up becoming first the Sagitarion delegate to the Quorum of Twelve, the Vice President under Gaius Baltar, the President for a few days, before he returns Laura Roslin to power and then her Vice President. After leading a coup against the civilan government, he is executed for murder and treason alongside Felix Gaeta.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group, the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
<br />
With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she had succeeded. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion, Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum do ''not'' support him and order him to leave--addressing him as ''Vice President'' rather than ''President''--he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After the order is carried out, he summons Gaeta, who reacts in horror and says that now all they had were "lies and murder."<br />
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He acts as judge in a court-martial for Adama, finds him guilty of treason, and as he had intended all along, orders his execution. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding that he and Gaeta surrender, he refuses, claiming that Tigh is dead already and that Adama is going to be executed. His call for Roslin to surrender in order to end the bloodshed infurates her to the point of turning the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wants to fight, but Gaeta tries to jump away, only to be foiled by Tyrol's sabotage of the FTL drive. Zarek is shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons. Seconds later, Zarek and Gaeta are arrested by Adama and his supporters, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek is later executed by firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta. He offers Gaeta a smile before the squad opens fire ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. He ends up becoming first the Sagitarion delegate to the Quorum of Twelve, the Vice President under Gaius Baltar, the President for a few days, before he returns Laura Roslin to power and then her Vice President. After leading a coup against the civilan government, he is executed for murder and treason alongside Felix Gaeta.<br />
<br />
== Biography ==<br />
<br />
Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group, the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
<br />
Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
<br />
Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
<br />
== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
<br />
With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
<br />
After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
<br />
When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
<br />
== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
<br />
With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
<br />
Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
<br />
While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
<br />
When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
<br />
== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
<br />
The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
<br />
After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she had succeeded. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion, Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum do ''not'' support him and order him to leave--addressing him as ''Vice President'' rather than ''President''--he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After the order is carried out, he summons Gaeta, who reacts in horror and says that now all they had were "lies and murder."<br />
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He acts as judge in a court-martial for Adama, finds him guilty of treason, and as he had intended all along, orders his execution. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding that he and Gaeta surrender, he refuses, claiming that Tigh is dead already and that Adama is going to be executed. His call for Roslin to surrender in order to end the bloodshed infurates her to the point of turning the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wants to fight, but Gaeta tries to jump away, only to be foiled by Tyrol's sabotage of the FTL drive. Zarek is shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons. Seconds later, Zarek and Gaeta are arrested by Adama and his supporters, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek is later executed by firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta. He offers Gaeta a smile before the squad opens fire ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. He ends up becoming first the Sagitarion delegate to the Quorum of Twelve, the Vice President under Gaius Baltar, the President for a few days, before he returns Laura Roslin to power and then her Vice President. After leading a coup against the civilan government, he is executed for murder and treason alongside Felix Gaeta.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group, the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she had succeeded. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion, Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum do ''not'' support him and order him to leave--addressing him as ''Vice President'' rather than ''President''--he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After the order is carried out, he summons Gaeta, who reacts in horror and says that now all they had were "lies and murder."<br />
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He acts as judge in a court-martial for Adama, finds him guilty of treason, and as he had intended all along, orders his execution. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding that he and Gaeta surrender, he refuses, claiming that Tigh is dead already and that Adama is going to be executed. His call for Roslin to surrender in order to end the bloodshed infurates her to the point of turning the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wants to fight, but Gaeta tries to jump away, only to be foiled by Tyrol's sabotage of the FTL drive. Zarek is shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons. Seconds later, Zarek and Gaeta are arrested by Adama and his supporters, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek is later executed by firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta. He offers Gaeta a smile before the squad opens fire ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''Thomas Zarek''', commonly known as '''Tom Zarek''', was a political activist for more than 30 years before the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]]. He was a charismatic, eloquent and ideological political agitator who was incarcerated for destroying a government building on [[Sagittaron]]. His 20-year incarceration culminated in a sojourn on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', an [[FTL]]-capable prison ship, whilst in transit to parole hearings. Assigned the prison number of [[893893]], Zarek is under consideration for parole at the time of the [[Cylon attack]]. He ends up becoming first the Sagitarion delegate to the Quorum of Twelve, the Vice President under Gaius Baltar, the President for a few days, before he returns Laura Roslin to power and then her Vice President. After leading a coup against the civilan government, he is executed for murder and treason alongside Felix Gaeta.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Zarek came from [[Sagittaron]], a colony known to be mistreated by the other eleven [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Colonies]]. Through his experiences on that colony he became an advocate of freedom from slavery, and proclaimed himself a voice for the disenfranchised. Along with publishing a book that was virtually banned throughout the Colonies, Zarek actively sought to combat injustices with the aid of his group, the [[S.F.M.]]<br />
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Though some consider him a terrorist for his often violent tactics (which include the destruction of a government building that results in unspecified casualties), others see him as a freedom fighter and a hero. He believes in the efficacy of violence as a means of change, going as so far as to go to prison over a "matter of conscience" by refusing President [[Richard Adar]]'s politically motivated conditional pardon (the conditions of the pardon being that he would publicly apologize and pledge to give up violence as a means of change).<br />
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Some of his fellow Sagittarons have an intense dislike of him, including [[Anastasia Dualla]]. Despite this, he became a public figure whose name had weight and almost became legendary, thanks to public opinion ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== After the Fall of the Colonies ==<br />
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[[Image:Tom zarek.jpg|thumb|right|Zarek in his cell ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
As the Cylons attack the Twelve Colonies, Zarek is on a prison barge called the ''[[Astral Queen]]'', headed to Caprica for parole hearings with several hundred other inmates. Hiding out in the atmosphere of [[Ragnar]] with the rest of humanity's survivors, the captain of the ''Astral Queen'' suggests that the inmates be euthanized, but his wish is overturned by [[Laura Roslin|President Roslin]]'s humanitarian decision to keep all of mankind's remnants alive ([[Miniseries]]). This leaves Zarek with time to plot his escape.<br />
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With the discovery of a planet that could replenish ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' lost water, Commander [[William Adama|Adama]], Colonel [[Saul Tigh|Tigh]] and President Roslin reluctantly decide to ask the prisoners to volunteer as badly needed manpower, under the condition that they would not be treated as slaves and they would agree of their own volition ("[[Water]]", "[[Bastille Day]]").<br />
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After [[Lee Adama]]'s unsuccessful attempt to persuade the prisoners to help in the recovery efforts, Zarek's springs the prisoners' escape plan. The prisoners, under Zarek's command, usurp control of the ''Astral Queen'', and takes her crew and ''Galactica's'' visitors as prisoners. Zarek states his terms for release of the prisoners: the resignation of Laura Roslin and her administration, and the start of free and open elections for a new President. Zarek deems Roslin's presidency as illegitimate and illegal.<br />
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Unfortunately, Zarek's aims are not in keeping with his demands; he wants a bloodbath to ensue, believing that all that people understand is violence, and that a bloodbath would destroy any credibility that Adama and Roslin have.<br />
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When the situation deteriorates near the point of catastrophe for all involved, Zarek, ready to sacrifice his life for his beliefs, is swayed by Lee Adama's promise that he would uphold the [[Articles of Colonization]] and hold open elections for a new president, once Roslin had served the remainder of President Adar's term (as dictated by the Articles and [[Case Orange]]), as well as give the ship over to the prisoners as a show of good faith ([[Bastille Day]]).<br />
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== Attempts for Political Power == <br />
[[Image:Home_pt1_debate.jpg|thumb|left|Tom Zarek in debate with [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] members.]]<br />
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With a degree of freedom obtained by the prisoners - including control of the ''Astral Queen'' - Zarek engages in a steady effort to gain the goodwill of others of influence within the Fleet. This effort includes physical acts of support for other ships (such as fixing the air filtration system on the ship occupied by [[Marshall Bagott]], a politician from [[Virgon]]).<br />
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Zarek's efforts result in a nomination as Sagittaron's representative on the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]]. From there, Zarek makes a bid for the position of vice president using the support of those he assisted, and possibly badgered ([[Colonial Day]]). <br />
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While Zarek's attempt at the vice presidency fails after Roslin replaces the somewhat unlikeable [[Wallace Gray]] with the charismatic Doctor [[Gaius Baltar]] as an alternative candidate, Zarek makes it clear to Roslin that he will be standing against her in the elections.<br />
Zarek remains possibly the most powerful and popular representative in the Quorum of Twelve.<br />
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When he is interviewed by the press aboard ''Cloud Nine'', he makes several comments consistent with a collectivist-oriented political ideology ([[Colonial Day]]). Whether these comments reflect Zarek's actual ideology, or if they are a cover he is using for his own purposes, remains unknown.<br/><br/><br />
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== Breakaway from the Fleet ==<br />
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The schism created by Commander Adama's unlawful arrest of President Roslin and Colonel Tigh's declaration of [[w:martial law|martial law]] presents Zarek with an opportunity to convince others that Adama is after total control of the Fleet. Zarek likely sought to use Tigh's inexperience with dealing with the government and [[Colonial Press|press]] against the military powers. Zarek and the Quorum soon learn of Roslin's terminal cancer, after Tigh permits the Quorum of Twelve to see her in ''Galactica'''s brig ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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After the ''[[Gideon]]'' incident, where four civilians die, some crewmembers of ''Galactica'' orchestrate Roslin's escape. Lee Adama, knowing they would be hunted throughout the Fleet, enlists Zarek's assistance in secreting Roslin away from Tigh and Commander Adama ("[[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]", "[[The Farm]]"). Roslin is initially dismayed to be greeted by Zarek, but realizes that Zarek, no friend to Adama or Tigh, is "the enemy of my enemy." <br />
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Zarek and Roslin attempt to use appeals by recorded [[wireless]] messages to sway favor in the Fleet to return to Kobol. Zarek convinces Lee Adama at first to create a dissenting message against ''Galactica's'' rule, but Lee changes his mind (probably because he swore to his comatose father that it wasn't about them). After Roslin plays the "religious card" to sway support for her cause in the Fleet, Roslin and Zarek lead a [[Laura Roslin faction|separatist fleet]] back to [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] to await [[Kara Thrace]]'s return with the [[Arrow of Apollo]], for use in unlocking the [[Tomb of Athena]].<br />
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Zarek, with his associate [[Meier]], plan to eliminate the young Captain Adama on Kobol, using the rationalization about [[Zeus]]'s warning that any return to Kobol would "exact a price in blood". Zarek feels that removing the young Adama would create a political power vacuum, allowing Zarek to take the position as leader of the fractioned Fleet, while Roslin would remain president ([[Home, Part I]]).<br />
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Zarek abandons the assassination plan when Commander Adama arrives on Kobol to mend fences with Roslin. However, Meier privately revises the plan outside of Zarek's knowledge, now with the goal of eliminating both Adamas by soliciting the help of the [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica copy of Sharon Valerii]] that returned with [[Karl Agathon]] and Thrace. Unfortunately for Zarek, Sharon Valerii double-crosses Meier, killing him at the entrance to the Tomb of Athena. While none in the group immediately consider Zarek as a suspect in Meier's assassination attempt, Commander Adama remains guarded and leaves Zarek and several others outside of the Tomb under the watchful eye of Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]] while they unlock its secrets ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Fleet's Reunification==<br />
Zarek later gives [[Lee Adama]] information regarding the [[Black market (organization)|black market]], initially claiming not to be a part of it because he needs to keep his hands clean, but ultimately points out that the black market does get supplies where they are needed. Nonetheless, Zarek mentions the central hub of the black market, ''[[Prometheus]]'', a ship so lawless that it is practically "off the grid", as well as the name of a "businessman", [[Phelan]]. However, soon after Phelan's death at the hands of Captain Adama, Tom Zarek is seen walking through a crowd on the ''Prometheus'' with one of Phelan's old henchmen in tow. It is unknown how much involvement Tom Zarek has with the organization ([[Black Market]]).<br />
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Despite being the presumed opponent of Roslin in the upcoming presidential election, Zarek decides not to run against her because he realizes he probably won't win the election. However, he encourages Vice President Gaius Baltar to run in his place ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
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==Baltar's Election Campaign==<br />
When Baltar announces his run for the presidency, Zarek assumes a position as his campaign manager. For all Zarek's personal political talent he has a hard time managing Baltar's campaign and faces the tough issue of whether Baltar is an electable candidate. After being trounced in the first debate by Roslin, Baltar's political future is in deep jeopardy and Zarek is left looking for a stronger wedge-issue other than Roslin's ties to the religious [[Gemenon|Gemenese]]. With the accidental discovery of [[New Caprica]], an issue presents itself that they can get on the supposed right side of: the colonization of the newly found planet and a safe-haven from the Cylons. Zarek presses Baltar to pick up this issue and run with it and as soon as he does his political fortunes turn around dramatically. Like he predicted the people rally around the idea of colonization and Baltar sails out of the final debate with a wide lead on Roslin ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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With his job of campaign manager all but over on election day, there isn't much for Zarek to do but sit back and wait for the results to come in. When the initial tallies come in suggesting Roslin scored a remarkable come-back victory he says to Baltar that he's seen enough elections to recognize a fixed one. Baltar admonishes Zarek, maintaining that, whatever Laura Roslin is, she is above fixing an election.<br />
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Later, with Baltar as president, Zarek becomes his vice president.<br />
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== The Occupation of New Caprica ==<br />
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After Baltar's surrender of the Colonial government, Zarek disagrees with the planned collaboration with the Cylons and is sent to a detention camp for four months.<br />
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Along with former President Laura Roslin, he and about 200 other dissidents are driven to the [[Pergamus Flats]] where they are to be executed by an order Baltar was forced to sign. After exiting the truck, Zarek asks Roslin directly whether she had [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|attempted to steal]] the past election. After Roslin admits that she had, both agree that they wished she had succeeded. The group of detainees are soon faced with [[Cylon Centurion]]s preparing to fire, and Zarek pulls Roslin back from the front of the crowd ([[Precipice]]). However, members of the resistance successfully prevent the execution.<br />
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Zarek attends the final meeting of the resistance to review the [[Battle of New Caprica|plan to escape New Caprica]]. Zarek and Roslin evacuate together towards their ships, though Roslin chooses to escape on ''[[Colonial One]]''. Before departing for his own ship, Zarek gives a gun to [[James Lyman|Jammer]] and tells him to protect Roslin ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==Presidency and the new Roslin Administration==<br />
After the [[Second Exodus|escape of the colonists from New Caprica]], Zarek assumes his office as President, succeeding the missing Baltar. He brokers an agreement with Roslin, whereby she is elected as vice president and he steps down, returning her to the office she has held since the Cylon invasion. She would then appoint him as Vice President to her. He asks her to give him a position in the new government and she offers this job to him herself citing his courage in standing up against Baltar. Unknown to Roslin and Adama, Zarek has signed into law an executive order authorizing a secret six-person [[The Circle|group]] tasked to find, charge, try, and execute collaborators and traitors. Sometime after disclosing this to Adama and Roslin, Zarek does go through with his plan, allowing Laura Roslin to resume her role as president. Despite condemning his actions and pardoning collaborators who collaborated with Cylons on New Caprica ([[Collaborators]]), Roslin is true to her word and appoints Zarek as her vice president. <br />
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Genuinely afraid of the consequences of trying Gaius Baltar after his capture on the [[algae planet]], Zarek argues with Roslin about instituting martial law throughout the Fleet during Baltar's trial, citing potentially dangerous and destructive civil unrest and work stoppages throughout the Fleet ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When [[Cowen]], the Caprican delegate to the [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum of Twelve]], dies, Zarek nominates the recently retired [[Lee Adama]] to the post, because of his dedication to finding the truth during the Baltar trial. In a benevolent attempt to keep the government from becoming a dictatorship, Zarek wants Adama on the Quorum to question some secretive decisions made by President Roslin. Zarek explains that this is not an attempt to manipulate Roslin in a malevolent way, but to deter her from the temptation of taking away the rights and power of the people for the sake of security. He acknowledges that he still supports Roslin and believes that even her most controversial decisions have been made for the good of the Fleet ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
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Several months later, Zarek finds himself in direct conflict with Lee Adama and his father. After President Roslin is taken away from the fleet by the rebel [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] ([[Guess What's Coming to Dinner]]), Zarek asserts his legal right as vice president to serve as acting president--an assertion that is ignored by Admiral Adama. The younger Adama, after backing his father's decision, convinces Zarek to give grudging approval to a search for another acting president--a search that ultimately puts Lee Adama himself into the position ([[Sine Qua Non]]).<br />
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==Post Earth/Coup d'etat==<br />
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Following the discovery of a ruined Earth ([[Revelations]]), both Adamas advocate a plan for a permanent alliance with the rebel Cylons, a plan that will extend full citizenship and Quorum representation to the Cylons. Zarek angrily opposes the plan, and instead musters near-unanimous support in the Quorum for a law requiring prior permission from the people of each ship in the fleet before any Cylon is allowed to board. Admiral Adama retaliates by forcibly boarding ''Colonial One'' and placing Zarek under arrest. Adama compels Zarek to reveal the coordinates of a ship that had left the fleet in protest. <br />
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While in prison, Zarek meets with [[Felix Gaeta]] and wins his cooperation in resisting the Cylon alliance ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]). Sometime later, Zarek is secretly freed from the ''Galactica'' brig by Gaeta and several of Gaeta's co-conspirators. They are blocked from taking off in a waiting [[Raptor]] by deck chief [[Peter Laird]], but Zarek kills Laird with a wrench before the latter can call for confirmation. Zarek returns to ''Colonial One'' in the midst of a stormy meeting of the Quorum led by Lee Adama. The vice president explains his surprise release as part of the admiral's decision to finally abandon democratic governance in favor of a military dictatorship: with democratic institutions such as the Quorum now cut off from power, Zarek is supposedly no longer a political threat and is therefore not worth keeping under arrest. While this is occurring, Gaeta's mutiny aboard ''Galactica'' continues until the [[CIC]] is secure and the senior staff are detained. Zarek calls Gaeta, and expresses his own surprise at the fact that Adama has not been killed ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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During his and Gaeta's rebellion, Zarek uses violence to gain the power he wants. When the Quorum do ''not'' support him and order him to leave--addressing him as ''Vice President'' rather than ''President''--he orders their execution by the marines outside the door. After the order is carried out, he summons Gaeta, who reacts in horror and says that now all they had were "lies and murder."<br />
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He acts as judge in a court-martial for Adama, finds him guilty of treason, and as he had intended all along, orders his execution. When Roslin calls from the Cylon baseship demanding that he and Gaeta surrender, he refuses, claiming that Tigh is dead already and that Adama is going to be executed. His call for Roslin to surrender in order to end the bloodshed infurates her to the point of turning the baseship's weapons on ''Galactica''. Zarek wants to fight, but Gaeta tries to jump away, only to be foiled by Tyrol's sabotage of the FTL drive. Zarek is shocked by Gaeta's order to stand down all weapons. Seconds later, Zarek and Gaeta are arrested by Adama and his supporters, ending the rebellion. <br />
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Zarek is later executed by firing squad for his actions alongside Gaeta. He offers Gaeta a smile before the squad opens fire ([[Blood on the Scales]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Tom Zarek is portrayed by actor [[Richard Hatch]], who portrayed the original [[Apollo (TOS)|Apollo]] in the [[Original Series]]. Currently, Hatch is the only actor to have had roles in both ''Battlestar Galactica'' series.<br />
*Hatch has written novels based on the Original Series, and also leads an effort to bring a Original Series [[continuation]] to a theatrical film in a project called ''[[Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming]]''.<br />
*A [[separate continuity]] comic book series, starting with [[Battlestar Galactica: Zarek 1]], gives a non-canonical tale about this character's more rebellious life.<br />
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'''''Colonial One''''' is a passenger liner starship now used as the seat of government for the President of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies of Kobol]]. ''Colonial One'' is the civilian counterpart to the military leadership aboard the battlestar ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. <br />
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== Background ==<br />
[[Image:Colonialheavy798 001 720p.jpg|left|thumb|Departing Caprica]]<br />
The Colonial [[Government]] chartered an [[Eversun]] starliner, designated ''Colonial Heavy 798'', for ferrying Secretary of Education [[Laura Roslin]], her staff and members of the [[Fleet News Service|Colonial press]] to and from the decommissioning ceremonies for the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.<ref>The ship's original designation as "Heavy" is perhaps similar to that of Earth aircraft; jets weighing over 255,000 pounds are called "Heavy" in air traffic control communications to alert other aircraft of possible wake turbulence from the named airplane. The proper usage is to append the word "Heavy" ''after'' the flight number and the incorrect usage is probably an error by the writers. If following the Earthly convention the ship would be referred to as ''Colonial 798 Heavy''. This designation may also imply that the ship's sub-light or FTL technologies could create hazards for other ships especially smaller ones.</ref> Roslin departs the pre-attack seat of Colonial power, [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]], shortly after her briefing on the teachers' strike with President [[Richard Adar]] ([[Epiphanies]]).<br />
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== History ==<br />
=== ''Galactica's'' Decommissioning Ceremony and Destruction of the Colonies ===<br />
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''Colonial Heavy 798'' arrives and lands aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' a few hours before the ceremonies. After the ceremonies, the transport begins its return to [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)#Caprica|Caprica]] with Captain [[Lee Adama]] escorting the starliner in [[Viper 7242|his father's old Viper]], carrying ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils in her hangar bay for return to Caprica.<br />
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Approximately 3 hours from Caprica, the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] commences. ''Colonial Heavy 798'' and Colonial press members hear of news that Caprica has been nuked along with three other Colonies. Secretary Roslin, as the highest government official on board, takes charge of the situation by setting up ''Colonial Heavy 798'' for long term use. Shortly after this news, a single [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]] attacks ''Colonial Heavy 798''. Lee Adama is able to decoy a missile that targets the starliner and shoots it down. His Viper is damaged in the process, but ''Colonial Heavy 798'' recovers the Viper into its cargo bay ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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=== Case Orange ===<br />
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[[Image:Roslin_swearing_in.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Roslin being sworn in]]<br />
A [[Case orange|special automated government broadcast]] prompts Laura Roslin to send her government ID number to locate surviving officials. With no more senior Colonial government officials apparently left alive, Laura Roslin is quickly sworn-in as the new President of the Colonies aboard<ref name="sworn">[[Wikipedia:Lyndon_B._Johnson#Assassination of President John F. Kennedy|U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson]] was quickly sworn-in aboard [[Wikipedia:SAM_26000|SAM 26000 (callsign ''Air Force One'')]], the Presidential air transport, immediately after President [[Wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy]] was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in November 1963. Roslin's swearing-in scene in the Miniseries was deliberately staged to mirror this event.</ref>, and ''Colonial Heavy 798'' is re-designated ''Colonial One'', in recognition of its status as the President's spacecraft.<br />
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=== Rescue Operations ===<br />
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With nowhere else to go, ''Colonial One'' engages in rescue missions under the direct orders of the new President. ''Colonial One'' locates and gathers other civilian vessels marooned in space around the vicinity of [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]. During their rescues, ''Colonial One'' receives a message from ''Galactica'': Regroup at [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. Roslin attempts to countermand Commander Adama, ordering his battlestar to aid in rescue operations instead. Before the situation can be resolved, another Cylon Raider jumps in and launches nuclear missiles at the small gathering of ships where ''Colonial One'' is assisting. Lee Adama saves the day once more using ''Galactica's'' old [[EMP]] coils to disable the missiles and fool the Cylons in thinking the small fleet was destroyed. Faced with the threat of further Cylon forces coming, Laura Roslin is forced to order all ''FTL'' capable vessels to jump to Ragnar Anchorage, leaving the sublight vessels behind where they are destroyed by the Cylons. The exact number of casualties from this action is unknown, but believed to be in the several thousands.<br />
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=== President Roslin's First Administration ===<br />
While this ordinary starliner probably lacks many of the facilities and systems the original ''Colonial One'' would have boasted, President Roslin nevertheless made it her base of operations during her term as Colonial President as did her successor President [[Gaius Baltar]]. Locating the administration aboard a civilian craft and not the arguably more logical choice of the battlestar ''Galactica'' helps to keep the civilian administration figuratively distinct as well as physically separate from [[William Adama]]'s military leadership. As well, ''Colonial One's'' security is handled by the [[Presidential security service]], which is independent of the military leadership.<br />
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=== President Baltar's Administration ===<br />
[[Image:Colonial1onnewcaprica.jpg|thumb|150px|right|Colonial One on New Caprica]]<br />
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Baltar continued to use ''Colonial One'' as base of operations for his administration, even going so far as to land ''Colonial One'' on the surface of [[New Caprica]] on a hilltop overlooking the new settlement. From here he could oversee the colonization of the planet, while the ship itself could act as a visual symbol of the presidency and de facto office building/White House equivalent for the administration.<br />
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=== Settlement of New Caprica ===<br />
A year after his election, President Baltar had all but done away with the modesty of Roslin's office on the ship. He remade it to resemble his old house on Caprica, replacing Roslin's simple desk with an extravagant wood desk, her office chair with a decorated leather seat, and her back office with an apparent sleeping chambers for his harem. He removed the white board with its population-count as well as the [[Lest We Forget|image of a rescue worker]] given to Roslin in "[[33]]". The white board was replaced with a picture of himself (in a sense symbolically laying his own ego over his responsibility to protect the people).<br />
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=== The Occupation of New Caprica ===<br />
A year after the discovery of the planet, [[New Caprica]] is detected and occupied by the [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylons]] ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). A [[Cylon Occupation Authority|Cylon "advisory committee"]] made up of representatives of each of the revealed Cylon models join Baltar aboard ''Colonial One'', although it's unclear whether they physically live aboard the vessel (more likely they lived in the Cylon-built administration and jail complex nearby). The Cylon committee forms the real government of New Caprica while Baltar's administration is reduced to no more than a puppet regime maintained to put a human face on increasingly horrific Cylon actions. These actions force many to resist the administration, including [[Felix Gaeta]] who uses his access to ''Colonial One'' to acquire information that can aid the growing [[New Caprica Resistance|human insurrection movement]]. Eventually the resistance stages a series of major strikes that, with the aid of Admiral Adama and the battlestars ''Galactica'' and ''Pegasus'', force the Cylons and Baltar to abandon the colony during the [[Battle of New Caprica]].<br />
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During the operation, the deserted vessel is boarded by former president Laura Roslin and a small force under her command as Roslin claims the ship as hers (probably due both to how long she'd lived there, and her leadership of the resistance; Vice President Zarek tacitly acknowledges her ''de facto'' supremacy by not contradict her and by assigning Jammer to protect her while wishing her good luck). Utilizing launch keys covertly obtained by Sharon Agathon, the force are able to re-activate ''Colonial One's'' launch thrusters and [[FTL|FTL drive]] and flee from New Caprica along with the remaining colonists. ''Colonial One'' is the last human ship to leave the planet.<br />
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=== There and Back Again: President Roslin's Second Administration ===<br />
With President Baltar having either died or abandoned his office, Vice President Tom Zarek assumes the presidency and reigns briefly aboard ''Colonial One''; whether or not Laura Roslin resided in the ship during the interim Zarek presidency is unclear. Zarek knows that he lacks the military's allegiance and that the will of the people is for Roslin to govern. The principal activities of the Zarak's caretaker administration appear to be effecting a smooth and legal transition to second Roslin administration and the swift and secret [[The Circle|adjudication of a number of collaboration and treason cases]], claimed to save Roslin and the population from months of painful and divisive "witch hunts". Laura Roslin, through an appointment-and-succession deal with Tom Zarek, once again takes office as Colonial President with Zarek as her Vice President. The ship is subsequently re-established as the center of the civilian government and resumes its fleet position traveling near ''Galactica'' ([[Collaborators]]). With ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' destroyed, [[Quorum of Twelve (RDM)|Quorum]] meetings are held aboard ''Colonial One'' from there on.<br />
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When redecorating and cleaning the office after Baltar's opulent reign, Roslin and Foster joke about hanging Baltar's portrait in the bathroom over the toilet as they feel that this is the only place where it belongs ([[Hero]]).<br />
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During a routine patrol around the Fleet, a Raptor manned by [[Margaret Edmondson]] and [[Hamish McCall]] loses flight control due to impurities in its [[tylium]] fuel. Unable to regain control and on a collision course with ''Colonial One'', the two pilots are forced to eject from the Raptor, which impacts the larger vessel near Roslin's office. The accident results in several injuries, but no fatalities. The hull damage forces Roslin and her staff to move to another part of the ship until repairs can be made ([[Dirty Hands]]).<br />
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During the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]] ''Colonial One'' is nearly destroyed by a Cylon missile. The missile is intercepted moments before impact by a quick-thinking [[Seelix]], who is taking part in active combat for the first time ([[He That Believeth in Me]]).<br />
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In the weeks preceding [[Gaeta's Mutiny]], Roslin used ''Colonial One'' less and less, in part due to the necessity of being aboard ''Galactica'' for medical treatment. Following the mutiny, during which a massacre of the Quorum of Twelve had occurred on ''Colonial One'', and with her own health deteriorating, Roslin effectively moved government operations to ''Galactica'' ("[[Deadlock]]", "[[Islanded in a Stream of Stars]]"). Despite this, there is no indication that ''Galactica'' has adopted the ''Colonial One'' call-sign, nor is there any indication that the [[Rebel Basestar]] adopted the call-sign when President [[Romo Lampkin|Lampkin]] and Admiral [[Louis Hoshi|Hoshi]] move the fleet leadership there. ''Colonial One'', along with all the surviving ships in the fleet is later flown via remote control by [[Samuel Anders]] into the [[New Earth]]'s sun. ([[Daybreak, Part II]]).<br />
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== Size and Configuration ==<br />
[[Image:ColonialOneDocking Water.JPG|right|thumb|Docking in ''Galactica''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s port flight pod]]<br />
''Colonial One'' is small enough to fit inside of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica's]]'' flight pod ([[Water]]). This makes ''Galactica'' a "safe haven" and also reduces contact with outsiders who would otherwise have the chance to make a move on the important visitors that frequently come and go from ''Colonial One''.<br />
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A large main cabin aboard the ship provides seating accommodation for dignitaries and [[Fleet News Service|press]] alike, while forward of this are small, more personal quarters reserved for ministers and their guests. Despite its conversion for government use, ''Colonial One'' retains its own docking bay, large enough to take a Colonial shuttle, and also boasts a cargo hold big enough to house a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]]-sized craft. Additionally, the ship boasts at least four cargo bays, three of which were converted to hold passengers ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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Following the destruction of the Colonies, the ship's normal passenger capacity was reduced to accommodate the offices and cabins required by government personnel. Civilian passengers on ''Colonial One'' resided in converted sections of the liner. However, the configuration of passenger accommodations seems likely to have changed following the events of the ''Battle of New Caprica'' and the abandonment the human colony there. ''Colonial One'' appears to be carrying a larger complement of civilians, just as ''Galactica ''is carrying a larger crew of military personnel (from the destroyed ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'') mixed with civilians. For example, as Roslin negotiates with [[Tom Zarek]] over his future role in the presidential administration in the episode "[[Collaborators]]", two children can be seen playing in a corner of the President's office. This overcrowding is presumably due to the loss of several ships [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II|before]] and [[Exodus, Part II|during]] the evacuation of New Caprica, as well as the need to spread out the remaining population among the existing ships.<br />
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== Cinematic Trivia ==<br />
[[Image:ColonialOneSeal.jpg|right|thumb|''Colonial One'' sporting the Colonial seal in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]".]]<br />
* The cockpit of ''Colonial One'' (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was a redressed original Space Shuttle Orbiter cockpit simulator. (The current Orbiter fleet have since been refurbished with [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/sts101_new_cockpit.html newer cockpits.])<br />
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*''Colonial One'''s cargo bay (seen only in the [[Miniseries]]) was actually the car deck of a [[w:BC Ferries|BC Ferries]] [[w:V class ferry|V Class]] car and passenger ferry.<br />
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* In seasons 1 and 2, the ship is always seen flying next to ''Galactica'' either for best protection or convenience when the President needed to board. (Cinematically, having the two ships close in a shot also played well to the challenges in the separation of civilian and military authority.) During several episodes of Season 4 this was taken one step further by having ''Colonial One'' actually parked inside one of ''Galactica's'' landing bays.<br />
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* The passenger area of the ship is modeled after the interior of the Pan Am ''Clipper Orion'' space shuttle seen ferrying Dr. Floyd into orbit in the movie ''[[w:2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. The defunct airline, and perhaps the ''2001'' movie, is also given homage with the [[Pan Galactic]] spaceline.<br />
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* In order to contribute to the series' "real world" feel, the ship was intentionally painted in a livery based closely upon that of the [[w:1st Airlift Squadron|1st Airlift Squadron]]'s executive transport fleet such as the principal [[w:Air Force One|''Air Force One'']] aircraft.<br />
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* Half way through Season 1, the ''Colonial One'' CG model was updated and the [[Colonial seal]] was added to the dorsal "hump" at the bow of the ship. The reuse of stock footage from early in season one and the Miniseries, however causes the seal to continually appear and disappear at random intervals.<br />
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* After "[[Exodus, Part II]]", rust can be seen between the outer hull plates of ''Colonial One'', reflecting weathering from resting over a year on [[New Caprica]].<br />
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* The ship is intermittently seen closely escorted by several Vipers.<br />
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* The practice of redesignating the president's spacecraft ''Colonial One'' mirrors real-life practice in the United States, in that any jet-powered aircraft carrying the president is automatically given the call-sign ''Air Force One'' (a different standard call-sign is used for helicoptiers). Correctly, the designation is only used when the president is on board. As ''Colonial One'' continues to be referred to as such even without the president aboard suggests the Colonies, or at least the Fleet, follow a different protocol. Despite President Roslin being based aboard ''Galactica'' for much of the time since the discovery of Earth, and with her effectively moving government and Quorum operations there (as indicated in "[[Deadlock]]") there appears to have been no attempt at following the naming protocol with regards to the battlestar, which otherwise should now be known as ''Colonial One''.<br />
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|death= Suicide ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]])<br />
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|marital status= Separated from [[Lee Adama]]<br />(Dated [[Billy Keikeya]] †)<br />
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|role= CIC officer on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''<br>Former executive officer of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''<br />
|rank= Junior Lieutenant<br />
|actor= [[Kandyse McClure]]<br />
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'''Anastasia "Dee" Dualla''' {{IPA|du.&#x02C8;&#x0251;.l&#x0259;}} is the former [[Communications Officer]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and was the [[Executive Officer]] of the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' prior to its destruction. At one time she was married to [[Lee Adama]], but separated from him.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet Reserve]] was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him ([[Final Cut]]). His rejection of her career choice stems from traditional Sagittaron [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron beliefs|beliefs]] in pacifism, which Dualla does not share ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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At the time of the [[Cylon attack]] she monitors Colonial Fleet communications traffic. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of [[CNP|shipboard malfunctions and failures]] aboard other battlestars ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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After the Fleet's [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|initial escape and pursuit]] by the Cylons, Dualla coordinates Fleet activities such as [[FTL]] jumps with Tactical Officer [[Felix Gaeta]]. In this responsibility, she discovers that the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump ([[33]]). <br />
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Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide [[Billy Keikeya]] "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' ([[Bastille Day]]). Led by Captain [[Lee Adama]], the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in resupplying ''Galactica'' with water following an act of sabotage ([[Water]]). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator [[Tom Zarek]].<br />
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[[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|'''Dualla''' and [[Billy Keikeya]] in the [[observation deck]] on a date ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]<br />
Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).<br />
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When a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] boards the ''Galactica'', Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Later, Dualla aids in [[Laura Roslin]]'s escape from ''Galactica'' after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Dualla is assigned to give [[D'Anna Biers]] a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship ([[Final Cut]]). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Dualla's [[avionics]] training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental [[Blackbird]] fighter ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of [[Sharon Valerii]]. When a ruse by Admiral [[William Adama]] is discovered, the [[Sesha Abinell|leader]] of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but Keikeya is also fatally wounded. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaissance by [[Kara Thrace]]. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in [[sickbay]]. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
[[Image:Dee LDYBPII2.JPG|thumb|Dualla as Executive Officer of ''Pegasus'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if [[Gaius Baltar]] is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity.<br />
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== Colonization of New Caprica ==<br />
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A few months later, Dualla has received a lieutenant's commission and is an officer now. Her transfer to ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' was approved on Founders' Day - the official groundbreaking of [[New Caprica City]], but she is still trying to keep her relationship with Lee Adama from becoming too public.<br />
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On the night of Founders' Day, Lee Adama spends a night with Thrace. The following morning, however, upon seeing that Thrace and Anders eloped, Lee proposes to Dualla and holds her affectionately in public. Dualla is aware of his love for Thrace, but likely doesn't know that they slept together. However, she says that life is good at the moment and that they should make the best of it until the Cylons show up again. She tells Adama that this is the happiest state she has ever seen him in and agrees to marry him ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]).<br />
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She subsequently serves as communications and executive officer on ''Pegasus'', part of its skeletal crew in orbit around [[New Caprica]]. She answers the communication from Kara Thrace on New Caprica, who wants to ask Commander Adama for [[antibiotics]] for [[Samuel Anders|her husband]]. While Adama is on the phone, Dualla identifies sudden [[DRADIS]] contacts of a large [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] fleet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Four months after leaving New Caprica, [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] decides to go through with a hazardous rescue operation. Dualla visibly disapproves of her father-in-law's decision to grant amnesty and a commission to [[Sharon Agathon]] and assign her as the liaison officer with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]). Dualla tries to reassure her husband after Admiral Adama decides to take ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' alone on the New Caprica rescue mission ([[Exodus, Part I]]). She appears visibly pleased when her husband defies orders and sacrifices ''Pegasus'' to save ''Galactica'' and the reassembled Fleet ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Second Exodus==<br />
Dualla returns periodically to her old post in ''Galactica's'' CIC after the Battle of New Caprica, but also has greater responsibilities in shepherding civilians on ''Galactica'' during a harrowing journey through a [[Passage (star cluster)|dangerous star cluster]] to a [[Algae planet|planet filled with edible algae]] ([[The Passage]]). Dualla and Samuel Anders are also witness to what appears to be both a feud and not-so-veiled affection between her husband and Anders' wife during a boxing match where Major Adama and Captain Thrace beat each other to exhaustion ([[Unfinished Business]]).<br />
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After Cylons arrive at the algae planet, Dualla must shift her time to coordinate a defensive plan for the mysterious [[Temple of Five]]. She is ordered by her husband to rescue Starbuck after her [[Raptor]] is downed by a Cylon missile. Despite being quite aware of her husband's affair with Thrace, she rescues Thrace, repairs the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Avionics|avionics]], and, with Thrace's guidance, flies the Raptor back to ''Galactica'' herself despite her own lack of pilot training as Starbuck's hands are too badly burned for her to fly ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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Dualla confronts her husband about their marriage and its problems. She believes it to be a lie, but indicates she will not interfere if he chose to pursue his relationship with Kara Thrace. Adama breaks off his affair and reconciles ([[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]).<br />
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Dualla contracts [[Mellorak sickness]] as do many other fellow Sagittarons (housed [[Dogsville|as refugees]] on the battlestar) and - unlike other Sagittarons who regarding medicine as evil - seeks treatment from Dr. [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor, because her unspecified dislike for Doctor [[Cottle]]. When Dr. Robert is discovered to kill the Sagittarons he treats, [[Karl Agathon]] rushes to her rescue and finds here out of danger, as Dr. Robert only targets Sagittarons outside of the military ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When her husband chooses to defend Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in his trial, Dualla is incensed, and separates from him ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). Later, when Adama officially leaves ''Galactica'' to start his new life a civilian, the two embrace and he tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final yet, in the end, amicable ([[Six of One]]).<br />
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She works closely with her estranged husband when, as Acting President, Lee takes command of the fleet during his father's emotional incapacity and threatens to execute [[Saul Tigh]], [[Samuel Anders]], and [[Galen Tyrol]] unless [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] releases her human hostages ([[Revelations]]). Dualla addresses him as "Mr. President" when notifying him of incoming communication, but does not demonstrate any of the animosity, disapproval nor hostility toward him as she periodically did aboard ''Pegasus'' and the algae planet. Indeed, she appears to be quite pleased and proud of her husband, while maintaining a professional demeanor.<br />
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== Death ==<br />
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Finding the planet Earth in its devastated condition takes a heavy toll on her. Upon returning to Galactica from the initial visit to the surface, she seeks out Lee and the two spend a pleasant evening over drinks together. She returns to her quarters and speaks briefly with Felix Gaeta. Directly after he leaves the room, she pulls out her service pistol, places it against her temple, and pulls the trigger. A shocked Felix races back into the room; as does [[Diana Seelix]]. Gaeta and other crewmembers call for a medic, but it is already too late ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*Dualla's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] is Flight Corporal [[Rigel]]. According to [[Ron Moore]]'s [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/blogs/ blog entry] on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla." <br />
*In the real-world U.S. Army, the ranks of corporal and specialist are the same pay-grade (E-4), although higher specialist grades also existed from 1955 until 1985.<br />
*Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]", in an on screen caption during her documentary interview. <br />
*The first name "Anastasia" means "Resurection" in ancient Greek.<ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasia Behindthename.com "Anastasia" ]</ref><ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasius Behindthename.com "Anastasius"]</ref> <br />
*The last name "Dualla" may be derived from Latin word ''Dualis'', which means duo or two. Another definition of the word dual is: something consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts. This point is touched upon by [[Kandyse McClure]], who believes that "her name 'Dualla', reading it as 'duality', says a lot about the role she plays on the ship. She is always trying to integrate these two sides of herself… this tender, youthful, passionate interior to her pragmatic oftentimes blunt and logical exterior world. This is what I love most about her… trying to find that balance in her work and in her relationships."<ref name="bsgblog">{{cite_web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/battlestar_blog/854094.html|title=battlestar_blog: The CIC's #1 Girl|date=27 February 2008|accessdate=27 February 2008|last=Gould|first=Grant|format=|language=}}</ref> There is, however, another possible etymological origin of Dualla's name: the [[w:Duala people|Duala people]] of present-day Cameroon, a nation in central and western Africa. If this is so, then this is perhaps the most notable reference to a non-Greco-Roman civilization in the series. Credence for this etymology may be found in [[Kandyse McClure]]'s nationality of birth. It would seem fitting that the on-screen name of one of the few actors of African descent in the re-imagined series would share a connection to a real life African ethnic group.<br />
*[[Grace Park]] initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and finally being cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
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|age=<br />
|colony= [[Sagittaron]]<br />
|birthname= Anastasia Dualla<br />
|callsign= <br />
|nickname= Dee<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= Suicide ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]])<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Separated from [[Lee Adama]]<br />(Dated [[Billy Keikeya]] †)<br />
|familytree=Y<br />
|role= CIC officer on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''<br>Former executive officer of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''<br />
|rank= Junior Lieutenant<br />
|actor= [[Kandyse McClure]]<br />
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'''Anastasia "Dee" Dualla''' {{IPA|du.&#x02C8;&#x0251;.l&#x0259;}} is the former [[Communications Officer]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and was the [[Executive Officer]] of the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' prior to its destruction. At one time she was married to [[Lee Adama]], but separated from him.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet Reserve]] was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him ([[Final Cut]]). His rejection of her career choice stems from traditional Sagittaron [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron beliefs|beliefs]] in pacifism, which Dualla does not share ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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At the time of the [[Cylon attack]] she monitors Colonial Fleet communications traffic. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of [[CNP|shipboard malfunctions and failures]] aboard other battlestars ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
<br />
After the Fleet's [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|initial escape and pursuit]] by the Cylons, Dualla coordinates Fleet activities such as [[FTL]] jumps with Tactical Officer [[Felix Gaeta]]. In this responsibility, she discovers that the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump ([[33]]). <br />
<br />
Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide [[Billy Keikeya]] "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' ([[Bastille Day]]). Led by Captain [[Lee Adama]], the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in resupplying ''Galactica'' with water following an act of sabotage ([[Water]]). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator [[Tom Zarek]].<br />
<br />
[[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|'''Dualla''' and [[Billy Keikeya]] in the [[observation deck]] on a date ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]<br />
Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).<br />
<br />
When a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] boards the ''Galactica'', Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Later, Dualla aids in [[Laura Roslin]]'s escape from ''Galactica'' after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla is assigned to give [[D'Anna Biers]] a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship ([[Final Cut]]). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla's [[avionics]] training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental [[Blackbird]] fighter ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
<br />
Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of [[Sharon Valerii]]. When a ruse by Admiral [[William Adama]] is discovered, the [[Sesha Abinell|leader]] of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but Keikeya is also fatally wounded. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaissance by [[Kara Thrace]]. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in [[sickbay]]. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
[[Image:Dee LDYBPII2.JPG|thumb|Dualla as Executive Officer of ''Pegasus'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if [[Gaius Baltar]] is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity.<br />
<br />
== Colonization of New Caprica ==<br />
<br />
A few months later, Dualla has received a lieutenant's commission and is an officer now. Her transfer to ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' was approved on Founders' Day - the official groundbreaking of [[New Caprica City]], but she is still trying to keep her relationship with Lee Adama from becoming too public.<br />
<br />
On the night of Founders' Day, Lee Adama spends a night with Thrace. The following morning, however, upon seeing that Thrace and Anders eloped, Lee proposes to Dualla and holds her affectionately in public. Dualla is aware of his love for Thrace, but likely doesn't know that they slept together. However, she says that life is good at the moment and that they should make the best of it until the Cylons show up again. She tells Adama that this is the happiest state she has ever seen him in and agrees to marry him ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]).<br />
<br />
She subsequently serves as communications and executive officer on ''Pegasus'', part of its skeletal crew in orbit around [[New Caprica]]. She answers the communication from Kara Thrace on New Caprica, who wants to ask Commander Adama for [[antibiotics]] for [[Samuel Anders|her husband]]. While Adama is on the phone, Dualla identifies sudden [[DRADIS]] contacts of a large [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] fleet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Four months after leaving New Caprica, [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] decides to go through with a hazardous rescue operation. Dualla visibly disapproves of her father-in-law's decision to grant amnesty and a commission to [[Sharon Agathon]] and assign her as the liaison officer with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]). Dualla tries to reassure her husband after Admiral Adama decides to take ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' alone on the New Caprica rescue mission ([[Exodus, Part I]]). She appears visibly pleased when her husband defies orders and sacrifices ''Pegasus'' to save ''Galactica'' and the reassembled Fleet ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
==After the Second Exodus==<br />
Dualla returns periodically to her old post in ''Galactica's'' CIC after the Battle of New Caprica, but also has greater responsibilities in shepherding civilians on ''Galactica'' during a harrowing journey through a [[Passage (star cluster)|dangerous star cluster]] to a [[Algae planet|planet filled with edible algae]] ([[The Passage]]). Dualla and Samuel Anders are also witness to what appears to be both a feud and not-so-veiled affection between her husband and Anders' wife during a boxing match where Major Adama and Captain Thrace beat each other to exhaustion ([[Unfinished Business]]).<br />
<br />
After Cylons arrive at the algae planet, Dualla must shift her time to coordinate a defensive plan for the mysterious [[Temple of Five]]. She is ordered by her husband to rescue Starbuck after her [[Raptor]] is downed by a Cylon missile. Despite being quite aware of her husband's affair with Thrace, she rescues Thrace, repairs the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Avionics|avionics]], and, with Thrace's guidance, flies the Raptor back to ''Galactica'' herself despite her own lack of pilot training as Starbuck's hands are too badly burned for her to fly ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
<br />
Dualla confronts her husband about their marriage and its problems. She believes it to be a lie, but indicates she will not interfere if Adama chose to pursue his relationship with Kara Thrace. Adama breaks off his affair and reconciles ([[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla contracts [[Mellorak sickness]] as do many other fellow Sagittarons (housed [[Dogsville|as refugees]] on the battlestar). While Dualla does not share the same beliefs of other Sagittarons regarding medical care and the military, she seeks treatment from Dr. [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor, because her unspecified dislike for Doctor [[Cottle]]. A plot is soon discovered where the doctor is killing Sagittarons he treats, and [[Karl Agathon]] rushes in to save Dualla. Fortunately, Dr. Robert had administered the correct medication to Dualla, giving exception due to her military service ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
<br />
When her husband chooses to defend Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in his trial, Dualla is incensed, and separates from him ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). Later, when Adama officially leaves ''Galactica'' to start his new life a civilian, the two embrace and he tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final yet, in the end, amicable ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
She works closely with her estranged husband when, as Acting President, Lee takes command of the fleet during his father's emotional incapacity and threatens to execute [[Saul Tigh]], [[Samuel Anders]], and [[Galen Tyrol]] unless [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] releases her human hostages ([[Revelations]]). Dualla addresses him as "Mr. President" when notifying him of incoming communication, but does not demonstrate any of the animosity, disapproval nor hostility toward him as she periodically did aboard ''Pegasus'' and the algae planet. Indeed, she appears to be quite pleased and proud of her husband, while maintaining a professional demeanor.<br />
<br />
== Death ==<br />
<br />
Finding the planet Earth in its devastated condition takes a heavy toll on her. Upon returning to Galactica from the initial visit to the surface, she seeks out Lee and the two spend a pleasant evening over drinks together. She returns to her quarters and speaks briefly with Felix Gaeta. Directly after he leaves the room, she pulls out her service pistol, places it against her temple, and pulls the trigger. A shocked Felix races back into the room; as does [[Diana Seelix]]. Gaeta and other crewmembers call for a medic, but it is already too late ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
<br />
==Family tree==<br />
{{Adama Family Tree (RDM)}}<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<br />
*Dualla's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] is Flight Corporal [[Rigel]]. According to [[Ron Moore]]'s [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/blogs/ blog entry] on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla." <br />
*In the real-world U.S. Army, the ranks of corporal and specialist are the same pay-grade (E-4), although higher specialist grades also existed from 1955 until 1985.<br />
*Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]", in an on screen caption during her documentary interview. <br />
*The first name "Anastasia" means "Resurection" in ancient Greek.<ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasia Behindthename.com "Anastasia" ]</ref><ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasius Behindthename.com "Anastasius"]</ref> <br />
*The last name "Dualla" may be derived from Latin word ''Dualis'', which means duo or two. Another definition of the word dual is: something consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts. This point is touched upon by [[Kandyse McClure]], who believes that "her name 'Dualla', reading it as 'duality', says a lot about the role she plays on the ship. She is always trying to integrate these two sides of herself… this tender, youthful, passionate interior to her pragmatic oftentimes blunt and logical exterior world. This is what I love most about her… trying to find that balance in her work and in her relationships."<ref name="bsgblog">{{cite_web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/battlestar_blog/854094.html|title=battlestar_blog: The CIC's #1 Girl|date=27 February 2008|accessdate=27 February 2008|last=Gould|first=Grant|format=|language=}}</ref> There is, however, another possible etymological origin of Dualla's name: the [[w:Duala people|Duala people]] of present-day Cameroon, a nation in central and western Africa. If this is so, then this is perhaps the most notable reference to a non-Greco-Roman civilization in the series. Credence for this etymology may be found in [[Kandyse McClure]]'s nationality of birth. It would seem fitting that the on-screen name of one of the few actors of African descent in the re-imagined series would share a connection to a real life African ethnic group.<br />
*[[Grace Park]] initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and finally being cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
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[[de:Anastasia Dualla]]<br />
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[[zh:阿纳斯塔西娅·杜拉]]</div>Str1977https://en.battlestarwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Anastasia_Dualla&diff=178196Anastasia Dualla2009-04-04T10:48:31Z<p>Str1977: /* Notes */ it is Anastasia that means resurrection</p>
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|age=<br />
|colony= [[Sagittaron]]<br />
|birthname= Anastasia Dualla<br />
|callsign= <br />
|nickname= Dee<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= Suicide ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]])<br />
|parents=<br />
|siblings=<br />
|children= <br />
|marital status= Separated from [[Lee Adama]]<br />(Dated [[Billy Keikeya]] †)<br />
|familytree=Y<br />
|role= CIC officer on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''<br>Former executive officer of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]''<br />
|rank= Junior Lieutenant<br />
|actor= [[Kandyse McClure]]<br />
|serial=312374<ref>This information is from [[:Image:Dualla's dogtag serial.jpg|her dogtags]].</ref><br />
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'''Anastasia "Dee" Dualla''' {{IPA|du.&#x02C8;&#x0251;.l&#x0259;}} is the former [[Communications Officer]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and was the [[Executive Officer]] of the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' prior to its destruction. At one time she was married to [[Lee Adama]], but separated from him.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
<br />
Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet Reserve]] was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him ([[Final Cut]]). His rejection of her career choice stems from traditional Sagittaron [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron beliefs|beliefs]] in pacifism, which Dualla does not share ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
<br />
At the time of the [[Cylon attack]] she monitors Colonial Fleet communications traffic. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of [[CNP|shipboard malfunctions and failures]] aboard other battlestars ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
<br />
After the Fleet's [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|initial escape and pursuit]] by the Cylons, Dualla coordinates Fleet activities such as [[FTL]] jumps with Tactical Officer [[Felix Gaeta]]. In this responsibility, she discovers that the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump ([[33]]). <br />
<br />
Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide [[Billy Keikeya]] "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' ([[Bastille Day]]). Led by Captain [[Lee Adama]], the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in resupplying ''Galactica'' with water following an act of sabotage ([[Water]]). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator [[Tom Zarek]].<br />
<br />
[[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|'''Dualla''' and [[Billy Keikeya]] in the [[observation deck]] on a date ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]<br />
Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).<br />
<br />
When a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] boards the ''Galactica'', Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Later, Dualla aids in [[Laura Roslin]]'s escape from ''Galactica'' after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla is assigned to give [[D'Anna Biers]] a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship ([[Final Cut]]). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla's [[avionics]] training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental [[Blackbird]] fighter ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
<br />
Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of [[Sharon Valerii]]. When a ruse by Admiral [[William Adama]] is discovered, the [[Sesha Abinell|leader]] of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but Keikeya is also fatally wounded. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaissance by [[Kara Thrace]]. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in [[sickbay]]. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
[[Image:Dee LDYBPII2.JPG|thumb|Dualla as Executive Officer of ''Pegasus'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if [[Gaius Baltar]] is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity.<br />
<br />
== Colonization of New Caprica ==<br />
<br />
A few months later, Dualla has received a lieutenant's commission and is an officer now. Her transfer to ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' was approved on Founders' Day - the official groundbreaking of [[New Caprica City]], but she is still trying to keep her relationship with Lee Adama from becoming too public.<br />
<br />
On the night of Founders' Day, Lee Adama spends a night with Thrace. The following morning, however, upon seeing that Thrace and Anders eloped, Lee proposes to Dualla and holds her affectionately in public. Dualla is aware of his love for Thrace, but likely doesn't know that they slept together. However, she says that life is good at the moment and that they should make the best of it until the Cylons show up again. She tells Adama that this is the happiest state she has ever seen him in and agrees to marry him ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]).<br />
<br />
She subsequently serves as communications and executive officer on ''Pegasus'', part of its skeletal crew in orbit around [[New Caprica]]. She answers the communication from Kara Thrace on New Caprica, who wants to ask Commander Adama for [[antibiotics]] for [[Samuel Anders|her husband]]. While Adama is on the phone, Dualla identifies sudden [[DRADIS]] contacts of a large [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] fleet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
Four months after leaving New Caprica, [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] decides to go through with a hazardous rescue operation. Dualla visibly disapproves of her father-in-law's decision to grant amnesty and a commission to [[Sharon Agathon]] and assign her as the liaison officer with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]). Dualla tries to reassure her husband after Admiral Adama decides to take ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' alone on the New Caprica rescue mission ([[Exodus, Part I]]). She appears visibly pleased when her husband defies orders and sacrifices ''Pegasus'' to save ''Galactica'' and the reassembled Fleet ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
<br />
==After the Second Exodus==<br />
Dualla returns periodically to her old post in ''Galactica's'' CIC after the Battle of New Caprica, but also has greater responsibilities in shepherding civilians on ''Galactica'' during a harrowing journey through a [[Passage (star cluster)|dangerous star cluster]] to a [[Algae planet|planet filled with edible algae]] ([[The Passage]]). Dualla and Samuel Anders are also witness to what appears to be both a feud and not-so-veiled affection between her husband and Anders' wife during a boxing match where Major Adama and Captain Thrace beat each other to exhaustion ([[Unfinished Business]]).<br />
<br />
After Cylons arrive at the algae planet, Dualla must shift her time to coordinate a defensive plan for the mysterious [[Temple of Five]]. She is ordered by her husband to rescue Starbuck after her [[Raptor]] is downed by a Cylon missile. Despite being quite aware of her husband's affair with Thrace, she rescues Thrace, repairs the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Avionics|avionics]], and, with Thrace's guidance, flies the Raptor back to ''Galactica'' herself despite her own lack of pilot training as Starbuck's hands are too badly burned for her to fly ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
<br />
Dualla confronts her husband about their marriage and its problems. She believes it to be a lie, but indicates she will not interfere if Adama chose to pursue his relationship with Kara Thrace. Adama breaks off his affair and reconciles ([[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]).<br />
<br />
Dualla contracts [[Mellorak sickness]] as do many other fellow Sagittarons (housed [[Dogsville|as refugees]] on the battlestar). While Dualla does not share the same beliefs of other Sagittarons regarding medical care and the military, she seeks treatment from Dr. [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor, because her unspecified dislike for Doctor [[Cottle]]. A plot is soon discovered where the doctor is killing Sagittarons he treats, and [[Karl Agathon]] rushes in to save Dualla. Fortunately, Dr. Robert had administered the correct medication to Dualla, giving exception due to her military service ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
<br />
When her husband chooses to defend Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in his trial, Dualla is incensed, and separates from Adama ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). Later, when Adama officially leaves ''Galactica'' to start his new life a civilian, the two embrace and he tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final yet, in the end, amicable ([[Six of One]]).<br />
<br />
She works closely with her estranged husband when, as Acting President, Lee takes command of the fleet during his father's emotional incapacity and threatens to execute [[Saul Tigh]], [[Samuel Anders]], and [[Galen Tyrol]] unless [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] releases her human hostages ([[Revelations]]). Dualla addresses him as "Mr. President" when notifying him of incoming communication, but does not demonstrate any of the animosity, disapproval nor hostility toward him as she periodically did aboard ''Pegasus'' and the algae planet. Indeed, she appears to be quite pleased and proud of her husband, while maintaining a professional demeanor.<br />
<br />
== Death ==<br />
<br />
Finding the planet Earth in its devastated condition takes a heavy toll on her. Upon returning to Galactica from the initial visit to the surface, she seeks out Lee and the two spend a pleasant evening over drinks together. She returns to her quarters and speaks briefly with Felix Gaeta. Directly after he leaves the room, she pulls out her service pistol, places it against her temple, and pulls the trigger. A shocked Felix races back into the room; as does [[Diana Seelix]]. Gaeta and other crewmembers call for a medic, but it is already too late ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
<br />
==Family tree==<br />
{{Adama Family Tree (RDM)}}<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<br />
*Dualla's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] is Flight Corporal [[Rigel]]. According to [[Ron Moore]]'s [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/blogs/ blog entry] on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla." <br />
*In the real-world U.S. Army, the ranks of corporal and specialist are the same pay-grade (E-4), although higher specialist grades also existed from 1955 until 1985.<br />
*Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]", in an on screen caption during her documentary interview. <br />
*The first name "Anastasia" means "Resurection" in ancient Greek.<ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasia Behindthename.com "Anastasia" ]</ref><ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasius Behindthename.com "Anastasius"]</ref> <br />
*The last name "Dualla" may be derived from Latin word ''Dualis'', which means duo or two. Another definition of the word dual is: something consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts. This point is touched upon by [[Kandyse McClure]], who believes that "her name 'Dualla', reading it as 'duality', says a lot about the role she plays on the ship. She is always trying to integrate these two sides of herself… this tender, youthful, passionate interior to her pragmatic oftentimes blunt and logical exterior world. This is what I love most about her… trying to find that balance in her work and in her relationships."<ref name="bsgblog">{{cite_web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/battlestar_blog/854094.html|title=battlestar_blog: The CIC's #1 Girl|date=27 February 2008|accessdate=27 February 2008|last=Gould|first=Grant|format=|language=}}</ref> There is, however, another possible etymological origin of Dualla's name: the [[w:Duala people|Duala people]] of present-day Cameroon, a nation in central and western Africa. If this is so, then this is perhaps the most notable reference to a non-Greco-Roman civilization in the series. Credence for this etymology may be found in [[Kandyse McClure]]'s nationality of birth. It would seem fitting that the on-screen name of one of the few actors of African descent in the re-imagined series would share a connection to a real life African ethnic group.<br />
*[[Grace Park]] initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and finally being cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
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'''Anastasia "Dee" Dualla''' {{IPA|du.&#x02C8;&#x0251;.l&#x0259;}} is the former [[Communications Officer]] of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' and was the [[Executive Officer]] of the battlestar ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' prior to its destruction. At one time she was married to [[Lee Adama]], but separated from him.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Dualla's father thought that her enlistment in the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet Reserve]] was crazy, and he viewed the military as a joke. She signed up anyway because she "wanted to believe in something." This rift with her father would continue throughout her service and the last time they spoke they got in a heated argument; three weeks later the Cylons attacked, and Dualla never got a chance to reconcile with him ([[Final Cut]]). His rejection of her career choice stems from traditional Sagittaron [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#Sagittaron beliefs|beliefs]] in pacifism, which Dualla does not share ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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At the time of the [[Cylon attack]] she monitors Colonial Fleet communications traffic. Dualla is among the first to notice the unusually high levels of [[CNP|shipboard malfunctions and failures]] aboard other battlestars ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
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After the Fleet's [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage|initial escape and pursuit]] by the Cylons, Dualla coordinates Fleet activities such as [[FTL]] jumps with Tactical Officer [[Felix Gaeta]]. In this responsibility, she discovers that the ''[[Olympic Carrier]]'' fails to jump with the fleet after yet another jump ([[33]]). <br />
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Due to his attraction to Dualla, presidential aide [[Billy Keikeya]] "volunteers" her to join an off-ship mission to the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' ([[Bastille Day]]). Led by Captain [[Lee Adama]], the mission is to attempt enlistment of prisoners aboard the ''Astral Queen'' in resupplying ''Galactica'' with water following an act of sabotage ([[Water]]). During the mission, the team is taken hostage by prisoners during a jail break lead by fellow Sagittaron and political agitator [[Tom Zarek]].<br />
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[[Image:Dee and bee.jpg|thumb|left|'''Dualla''' and [[Billy Keikeya]] in the [[observation deck]] on a date ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]])]]<br />
Freed without personal harm during this situation, Dualla returns Billy Keikeya's affections, and they date during off-duty periods ([[Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down]]).<br />
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When a party of [[Cylon Centurion|Cylons]] boards the ''Galactica'', Dualla suffers a concussion, but survives the engagement ([[Valley of Darkness]]). Later, Dualla aids in [[Laura Roslin]]'s escape from ''Galactica'' after the President's arrest by covering up the tracks of their secret communications coordinating their movements in the Fleet, and getting Colonel Tigh to sign permission to close off a causeway which they use as an escape route. At this time, Dualla seems to take a greater personal interest in [[Lee Adama|Apollo]] ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).<br />
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Dualla is assigned to give [[D'Anna Biers]] a tour around the battlestar as part of Biers' documentary of the ship ([[Final Cut]]). Lee Adama seems to return Dualla's personal attraction during a sparring exercise with the petty officer ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Dualla's [[avionics]] training helps in building a stable communications package for the experimental [[Blackbird]] fighter ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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Keikeya, apparently attempting to solidify his relationship with the petty officer, proposes to Dualla, but she refuses. Keikeya later sees Dualla with Lee Adama on ''[[Cloud 9]]'' and accuses her of leading him on. Shortly after Keikeya's accusation, four terrorists commandeer the lounge and its occupants and demand the surrender of [[Sharon Valerii]]. When a ruse by Admiral [[William Adama]] is discovered, the [[Sesha Abinell|leader]] of the the terrorists orders Dualla's death. Keikeya intervenes and manages to shoot one of the terrorists, but Keikeya is also fatally wounded. In the same battle, Lee Adama is left severely wounded from a friendly-fire incident during an ill-fated reconnaissance by [[Kara Thrace]]. Dualla promises to watch over Lee Adama until he recovers in [[sickbay]]. When he finally regained consciousness, Dualla was so happy that neither of them noticed Thrace leaving the sickbay with a heartbroken expression ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
[[Image:Dee LDYBPII2.JPG|thumb|Dualla as Executive Officer of ''Pegasus'' ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).]]<br />
A few months later, still involved with Apollo, Dualla assists in the counting of ballots for the Presidential election. Dualla conspires with [[Tory Foster]] and [[Saul Tigh]] to rig the election in Roslin's favor, indicating that she comprehends the disaster that would follow if [[Gaius Baltar]] is elected. Though the plot initially succeeds, Lt. Gaeta's curiosity leads to Admiral Adama's discovery of the duplicity.<br />
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== Colonization of New Caprica ==<br />
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A few months later, Dualla has received a lieutenant's commission and is an officer now. Her transfer to ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'' was approved on Founders' Day - the official groundbreaking of [[New Caprica City]], but she is still trying to keep her relationship with Lee Adama from becoming too public.<br />
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On the night of Founders' Day, Lee Adama spends a night with Thrace. The following morning, however, upon seeing that Thrace and Anders eloped, Lee proposes to Dualla and holds her affectionately in public. Dualla is aware of his love for Thrace, but likely doesn't know that they slept together. However, she says that life is good at the moment and that they should make the best of it until the Cylons show up again. She tells Adama that this is the happiest state she has ever seen him in and agrees to marry him ([[Unfinished Business (Extended Version)]]).<br />
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She subsequently serves as communications and executive officer on ''Pegasus'', part of its skeletal crew in orbit around [[New Caprica]]. She answers the communication from Kara Thrace on New Caprica, who wants to ask Commander Adama for [[antibiotics]] for [[Samuel Anders|her husband]]. While Adama is on the phone, Dualla identifies sudden [[DRADIS]] contacts of a large [[Cylons (RDM)|Cylon]] fleet ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).<br />
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Four months after leaving New Caprica, [[William Adama|Admiral Adama]] decides to go through with a hazardous rescue operation. Dualla visibly disapproves of her father-in-law's decision to grant amnesty and a commission to [[Sharon Agathon]] and assign her as the liaison officer with the [[New Caprica Resistance]] ([[Precipice]]). Dualla tries to reassure her husband after Admiral Adama decides to take ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' alone on the New Caprica rescue mission ([[Exodus, Part I]]). She appears visibly pleased when her husband defies orders and sacrifices ''Pegasus'' to save ''Galactica'' and the reassembled Fleet ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
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==After the Second Exodus==<br />
Dualla returns periodically to her old post in ''Galactica's'' CIC after the Battle of New Caprica, but also has greater responsibilities in shepherding civilians on ''Galactica'' during a harrowing journey through a [[Passage (star cluster)|dangerous star cluster]] to a [[Algae planet|planet filled with edible algae]] ([[The Passage]]). Dualla and Samuel Anders are also witness to what appears to be both a feud and not-so-veiled affection between her husband and Anders' wife during a boxing match where Major Adama and Captain Thrace beat each other to exhaustion ([[Unfinished Business]]).<br />
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After Cylons arrive at the algae planet, Dualla must shift her time to coordinate a defensive plan for the mysterious [[Temple of Five]]. She is ordered by her husband to rescue Starbuck after her [[Raptor]] is downed by a Cylon missile. Despite being quite aware of her husband's affair with Thrace, she rescues Thrace, repairs the [[Computers in the Re-imagined Series#Avionics|avionics]], and, with Thrace's guidance, flies the Raptor back to ''Galactica'' herself despite her own lack of pilot training as Starbuck's hands are too badly burned for her to fly ("[[The Eye of Jupiter]]", "[[Rapture]]").<br />
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Dualla confronts her husband about their marriage and its problems. She believes it to be a lie, but indicates she will not interfere if Adama chose to pursue his relationship with Kara Thrace. Adama breaks off his affair and reconciles ([[Taking a Break From All Your Worries]]).<br />
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Dualla contracts [[Mellorak sickness]] as do many other fellow Sagittarons (housed [[Dogsville|as refugees]] on the battlestar). While Dualla does not share the same beliefs of other Sagittarons regarding medical care and the military, she seeks treatment from Dr. [[Michael Robert]], a civilian doctor, because her unspecified dislike for Doctor [[Cottle]]. A plot is soon discovered where the doctor is killing Sagittarons he treats, and [[Karl Agathon]] rushes in to save Dualla. Fortunately, Dr. Robert had administered the correct medication to Dualla, giving exception due to her military service ([[The Woman King]]).<br />
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When her husband chooses to defend Dr. [[Gaius Baltar]] in his trial, Dualla is incensed, and separates from Adama ([[Crossroads, Part I]]). Later, when Adama officially leaves ''Galactica'' to start his new life a civilian, the two embrace and he tells her that she "got the house", implying that their breakup is final yet, in the end, amicable ([[Six of One]]).<br />
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She works closely with her estranged husband when, as Acting President, Lee takes command of the fleet during his father's emotional incapacity and threatens to execute [[Saul Tigh]], [[Samuel Anders]], and [[Galen Tyrol]] unless [[Number Three (Downloaded copy)|Number Three]] releases her human hostages ([[Revelations]]). Dualla addresses him as "Mr. President" when notifying him of incoming communication, but does not demonstrate any of the animosity, disapproval nor hostility toward him as she periodically did aboard ''Pegasus'' and the algae planet. Indeed, she appears to be quite pleased and proud of her husband, while maintaining a professional demeanor.<br />
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== Death ==<br />
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Finding the planet Earth in its devastated condition takes a heavy toll on her. Upon returning to Galactica from the initial visit to the surface, she seeks out Lee and the two spend a pleasant evening over drinks together. She returns to her quarters and speaks briefly with Felix Gaeta. Directly after he leaves the room, she pulls out her service pistol, places it against her temple, and pulls the trigger. A shocked Felix races back into the room; as does [[Diana Seelix]]. Gaeta and other crewmembers call for a medic, but it is already too late ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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*Dualla's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]] is Flight Corporal [[Rigel]]. According to [[Ron Moore]]'s [http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/blogs/ blog entry] on April 18, 2006, Dualla is actually more or less directly inspired by Rigel, saying Dualla is "filling the role of another woman in the original BSG series who used to man the communication system on their bridge. That character was called "Rigel" but I didn't think that name worked in the remake, so I gave her the name of Dualla." <br />
*In the real-world U.S. Army, the ranks of corporal and specialist are the same pay-grade (E-4), although higher specialist grades also existed from 1955 until 1985.<br />
*Dualla was known throughout all of the first season and part of of the second season only as "Dualla" or "Dee". Her first name was finally revealed in the episode "[[Final Cut]]", in an on screen caption during her documentary interview. <br />
*The first name "Anastasia" is the feminine form of "Anastasius", which means "Resurection" in ancient Greek.<ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasia Behindthename.com "Anastasia" ]</ref><ref>[http://www.behindthename.com/name/anastasius Behindthename.com "Anastasius"]</ref> <br />
*The last name "Dualla" may be derived from Latin word ''Dualis'', which means duo or two. Another definition of the word dual is: something consisting of two parts or elements or having two like parts. This point is touched upon by [[Kandyse McClure]], who believes that "her name 'Dualla', reading it as 'duality', says a lot about the role she plays on the ship. She is always trying to integrate these two sides of herself… this tender, youthful, passionate interior to her pragmatic oftentimes blunt and logical exterior world. This is what I love most about her… trying to find that balance in her work and in her relationships."<ref name="bsgblog">{{cite_web|url=http://community.livejournal.com/battlestar_blog/854094.html|title=battlestar_blog: The CIC's #1 Girl|date=27 February 2008|accessdate=27 February 2008|last=Gould|first=Grant|format=|language=}}</ref> There is, however, another possible etymological origin of Dualla's name: the [[w:Duala people|Duala people]] of present-day Cameroon, a nation in central and western Africa. If this is so, then this is perhaps the most notable reference to a non-Greco-Roman civilization in the series. Credence for this etymology may be found in [[Kandyse McClure]]'s nationality of birth. It would seem fitting that the on-screen name of one of the few actors of African descent in the re-imagined series would share a connection to a real life African ethnic group.<br />
*[[Grace Park]] initially auditioned for the role of Dualla, before being asked to audition for the role of [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]], and finally being cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
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'''Diana "Hardball" Seelix''' is first a [[deckhand]] and later a [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] qualified pilot aboard ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.<br />
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She survives the crash of Raptor 1 on [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]). She uses some basic medical training to attend to [[Socinus]]' wounds ("[[Scattered]]", "[[Valley of Darkness]]").<br />
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Seelix suffers a bullet wound to her leg while escaping a Cylon anti-aircraft emplacement on Kobol, but [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Henderson]] drags her to safety. The group is later rescued by ''Galactica'' ([[Fragged]]).<br />
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Later, Seelix returns to duty aboard ''Galactica'' with Chief [[Galen Tyrol|Tyrol]]'s deck crew. There, she and the other deckhands throw a welcome back party for Henderson when she is released from the brig.<br />
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She assists in the construction of the [[Blackbird]] ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]). Seelix's specialization is in avionics ([[Dirty Hands]]).<br />
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[[Image:Seela.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Seelix on New Caprica]]<br />
After the discovery of [[New Caprica]] she settles on the planet. When the Cylons find and occupy the planet, she becomes active in the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] and helps to rescue many people - including [[Cally Tyrol]], [[Laura Roslin]] and [[Tom Zarek]]--from a [[Cylon Centurion]] execution squad ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Shortly after the exodus from New Caprica and her return to ''Galactica'', Seelix becomes a member of [[the Circle]], a secret presidential tribunal tasked with trying, convicting and executing humans who collaborated with the Cylon. She is among the less scrupulous members. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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Some time later, she accompanies the Tyrols to [[airlock]] 12 on deck 14, where maintenance needs to be performed. When the Tyrols are trapped in the airlock and it begins to depressurize due to a small but widening hole in the hull, she tries unsuccessfully to reopen the inner airlock doors from the observation booth. Seelix cares for [[Nicholas Tyrol]] while his parents are recovering in ''Galactica'''s sickbay from their exposure to space during their rescue ([[A Day in the Life]]).<br />
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At an unspecified point in time, Seelix applies to become a pilot, passing the written exam with flying colors but is rejected because she is one of the best available avionics specialists and the Fleet needs every able-bodied person available to stay where they are to keep itself operational. After the workers' strike aboard ''Galactica'' and the refinery ship is resolved, Seelix is promoted to Ensign and begins flight training ([[Dirty Hands]]).<br />
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She becomes a capable Viper pilot, successfully destroying a missile meant for ''[[Colonial One]]'' during the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula]], and is known by her callsign, "Hardball" ([[He That Believeth In Me]]). Seelix is part of the ''[[Demetrius]]'''s crew on its mission to find [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] ([[The Ties That Bind]]). There she becomes involved in the mutiny against [[Kara Thrace]], revealing her belief that Thrace is a Cylon and should be airlocked ([[Faith]]).<br />
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Seelix participates in the [[Battle of the Resurrection Hub]]. She urges a panicking [[Eammon Pike]] to not jump away from the battle after his Raptor is damaged, and fires nuclear missiles to destroy the [[Resurrection Hub|Hub]] ([[The Hub]]).<br />
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After the discovery of a devastated Earth, Seelix is on the hangar deck when Adama's Raptor returns from the surface. She later is the first to note [[Anastasia Dualla]]'s suicide and tends to the dying woman ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
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Seelix later confesses to Anders that she feels her prior relationship with him was a fabrication since he is a Cylon. He attempts to explain that his emotions were genuine at the time, but she is merely distracting him. Several kidnappers come, cover his face, and beat Anders. Seelix and the men are participants in the [[Gaeta's Mutiny|mutiny]] led by [[Felix Gaeta]] ([[The Oath]]).<br />
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The mutiny is thwarted, and Seelix survives to be imprisoned with the other surviving mutineers on the ''[[Astral Queen]]''<ref>Confirmed by the podcast for [[Deadlock]].</ref>.<br />
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Weeks later, Admiral Adama offers the mutineers their freedom in exchange for participating in what is essentially a suicide mission to rescue Hera Agathon from Cavil's forces. It is is unknown if Seelix accepts this offer.<br />
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Seelix's ultimate fate at the end of the series is not clear as she never appears in the final episode. One would presume that if she survived the final battle or chose not to participate, she settles with the rest of the Colonials on the planet they decide to call Earth.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*Seelix first appeared in "[[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]", in Raptor 1 in an uncredited role until the following episode. <br />
*The [[Podcast:A Day in the Life Bonus|extended podcast]] for the episode "[[A Day In The Life]]", which lets viewers listen in the editing of the episode, recalls the circumstances of how [[Aaron Douglas]] began the first use of "Seelix" for the character's name, which was essentially improvised during filming. When Seelix and [[Tarn]] first appeared in the [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|Season 1 finale]], they were originally named generically as "Technician #1" (Tarn) and "Technician #2" (Seelix). Douglas, who plays Chief Tyrol, saw potential for the two characters, and after consulting together, they came up with names for both characters. Douglas then just inserted their names into his lines on every take. So by the Season 2 premiere, the credits officially started listing them with these names. Tarn died in the season premiere, but Seelix ultimately became a recurring character, reappearing in "Flight of the Phoenix" and into [[Season 4]].<br />
*Seelix's first name, Diana, is revealed at the conclusion of the episode "[[Dirty Hands]]". The name "Diana" stems from the Roman name of the goddess Artemis, who is also one of the [[Religion in the Twelve Colonies#The Lords of Kobol|Lords of Kobol]].<br />
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<div>'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
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Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
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The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. <br />
*Seelix and Barolay most mirror Tigh's approach but take no stance in the procedural issues.<br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for procedures. His proposal of summary conviction and execution is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thrace, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
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Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
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Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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*Ironically, three members of the circle - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
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Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
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The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
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The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. <br />
*Seelix and Barolay most mirror Tigh's approach but take no stance in the procedural issues.<br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for procedures. His proposal of summary conviction and execution is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thrace, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
<br />
Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
<br />
Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circle - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
<br />
Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
<br />
The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
<br />
The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. He is followed in this approach by Seelix and Barolay. <br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for procedures. His proposal of summary conviction and execution is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thrace, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
<br />
Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
<br />
Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circle - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Collaborators - Tribuial.jpg|The Circle.<br/>Pictured clockwise are members Saul Tigh, Jean Barolay, Kara Thrace, Diana Seelix, and Charlie Connor.|200px|thumb]]<br />
'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
<br />
Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
<br />
The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
<br />
The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. He is followed in this approach by Seelix and Barolay. <br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for procedures. His proposal of summary conviction and execution is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thrace, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
<br />
Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
<br />
Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circle - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Collaborators - Tribuial.jpg|The Circle.<br/>Pictured clockwise are members Saul Tigh, Jean Barolay, Kara Thrace, Diana Seelix, and Charlie Connor.|200px|thumb]]<br />
'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
<br />
Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
<br />
The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
<br />
The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. He is followed in this approach by Seelix and Barolay. <br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for proper procedures. In this he is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thracem, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
<br />
Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
<br />
Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circle - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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<div>[[Image:Season 3 - Promo - Collaborators - Tribuial.jpg|The Circle.<br/>Pictured clockwise are members Saul Tigh, Jean Barolay, Kara Thrace, Diana Seelix, and Charlie Connor.|200px|thumb]]<br />
'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
<br />
Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason". The tribunal's proceedings are apparently limited to the period between the escape from New Caprica and the transition of the presidency from Zarek to [[Laura Roslin]].<br />
<br />
The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. <br />
<br />
The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: <br />
*Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. <br />
*Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. He is followed in this approach by Seelix and Barolay. <br />
*The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for proper procedures. In this he is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
*Short-term member Kara Thracem, after initial concerns about the legality of the tribunal, quickly votes in favour of Gaeta's execution. She joined the circle mainly for emotional reasons, seeking retribution for her ordeal on New Caprica by hurting somebody. She assaults Gaeta before his iminent execution but in the process the reveals information that leads to Gaeta's acquital.<br />
<br />
Of the Circle's list of suspects, two cases are shown on screen<br />
*The Circle convicts [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]], a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. <br />
*[[Felix Gaeta]], who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica, is also convicted by the Circle, though without proper evidence, leading to Anders' resignation. Gaeta, unwilling to defend himself, is assaulted by Kara Thrace, which leads to the revelation that Gaeta served as Tyrol's "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to acquit Gaeta.<br />
<br />
Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation. Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circile - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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<div>:''This article discusses the [[Battlestar Galactica (RDM)|Re-imagined Series]] character with the pilot callsign of "Starbuck." For information on Kara Thrace's counterpart in the [[Battlestar Galactica (TOS)|Original Series]], see [[Starbuck (TOS)]].'' <br />
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:''For Kara Thrace's parents, see [[Dreilide Thrace]] and [[Socrata Thrace]].''<br />
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{{Character Data<br />
|photo= Kara Thrace.jpg<br />
|age=<br />
|colony= [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]]<br />
|birthname= Kara Thrace <br />
|callsign= Starbuck<br />
|seen= Miniseries<br />
|death= Viper destroyed near gas giant, its & her remains crashing on [[Earth (RDM)#Arrival_and_Ruins|old Earth]] ([[Maelstrom]]/[[Sometimes a Great Notion]]);<br>Resurected as an angel ([[Crossroads, Part II]]);<br>Vanished in Tanzania on [[Earth (RDM)#A_New_Earth|real-world Earth]] ([[Daybreak, Part II)]]<br />
|parents= [[Socrata Thrace]]† (mother)<br>[[Dreilide Thrace]]† (father)<br />
|siblings= <br />
|children=<br />
|marital status= Married to [[Samuel Anders]] (formerly engaged to [[Zak Adama]]†)<br />
|rank=Lieutenant, later Captain<br />
|role= Harbinger of Death, Commander of ''Galactica'' Air Group; temporary Commander of ''Pegasus'' Air Group; top gun Viper pilot on ''Galactica''<br />
|actor= [[Katee Sackhoff]]<br>[[Erika-Shaye Gair]] (child)<br />
|cylon= <br />
|serial = 462753 <ref name="serial"> Confirmed number from QMX dogtags given to them by the studio.</ref><br />
}}<br />
'''Kara "Starbuck" Thrace''' is the current [[Commander Air Group|Commander, Air Group]] (CAG) of ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''. She is a gifted [[Viper (RDM)|Viper]] pilot, with an attitude that has at times thwarted her career advancement. However, thanks to [[William Adama]], Thrace's skills in battle have extended beyond the cockpit to greatly aid the Fleet.<br />
<br />
== Background ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:YoungKaraThrace.jpg|thumb|left|A young Kara Thrace in a hallucination ([[Maelstrom]]).]]<br />
*Thrace was so frequently beaten by her mother [[Socrata Thrace|Socrata]], that she came to accept pain as a way of life ("[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[Maelstrom]]").<br />
*Her father was a pianist ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
*Thrace left home to join the [[Colonial Fleet (RDM)|military]]. During her training, she received complaints about her conduct towards [[Mike Gibbons|superior officers]].<br />
*One of her first postings prior to being a flight instructor was aboard the battlestar ''[[Triton (RDM)|Triton]]''. While serving aboard, she exhibited one of the first known instances of offending high-ranking commissioned officers, namely one Commander [[Myron Ruth]] who opened court-martial proceedings against her. They were later dropped ([[The Son Also Rises]]).<br />
* She was a very talented [[pyramid]] player ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]), and received a scholarship to the Fleet Academy to play pyramid. During this time, she injured her knee and was no longer able to play pyramid at a professional level. However, she discovered a passion and skill at being a fighter pilot ([[Podcast:The Hand of God]]). On graduating from Colonial Flight School, she undertook a period of active duty before returning to flight school as an instructor. <br />
*Thrace fell in love with a young recruit, [[Zak Adama]]. Despite his poor performance, she passed him on his final flight examination although he failed three of the required maneuvers ([[Act of Contrition]]).<br />
*Thrace's engagement to Zak Adama ended when he was killed during a routine mission shortly after graduating. At the time, [[Lee Adama]] ("Apollo"), Zak's elder brother, blamed their father for Zak's death. Feeling guilty, Thrace did little to alter this idea. She did, however, meet [[William Adama]] shortly after the accident, and the two struck up such a strong rapport that they stood together at the funeral ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*Thrace resigned from flight school as an instructor and transferred as an operational pilot to the [[Galactica type battlestar|battlestar]] ''[[Galactica]]'' under the command of William Adama, where she served for some two years prior to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|Cylon attack]] on the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]]. Before the Cylon attack, she was second in command of the remaining pilots, subordinate to the [[CAG]], [[Jackson Spencer]]. <br />
*At the time of the Cylon attack she has an run-down apartment in [[Delphi]] that overlooks a parking lot and a Colonial version of a [[Wikipedia:Humvee|Humvee]] which she and Helo use to escape the city and get to the country where she meets her husband-to-be Anders. She rarely used the dilapidated apartment. She was also a very avid painter, and her apartment was cluttered with her paintings and a [[Starbuck's Poem|poem]] is written on a wall ([[Valley of Darkness]]). The apartment was a better state of repair when Thrace was romantically involved with Zak Adama, although her [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] wall painting pre-dates that relationship. ([[Daybreak, Part I]])<br />
*Despite her reckless approach to life, Thrace hides the fact that she is deeply spiritual. She frequently prays (or talks) to the [[Lords of Kobol]], particularly [[Aphrodite]] and [[Artemis]] in times of need ([[Miniseries]], "[[Flesh and Bone]]", "[[You Can't Go Home Again]]").<br />
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==Character History==<br />
*Thrace's attitude quickly runs her afoul of Colonel [[Saul Tigh]], ''Galactica's'' [[Executive officer]]. Their open mutual dislike of one another leads to the point where blows are exchanged, with Thrace ending up in the brig. After the Cylon attack she is released from the brig and returns to duty as Viper pilot.<br />
*Thrace manages to keep two of three nuclear missiles from striking ''Galactica'' in their first Cylon sortie, and saves Lee from doom in an innovative maneuver in the [[Battle of Ragnar Anchorage]].<br />
*Her skills in saving Lee brings her grudging respect from Colonel Tigh, but she is unable to accept his offer of the olive branch - an act that will have repercussions for her later ([[Miniseries]]).<br />
[[image:Bastille_Day-Starbuck_Boxey.jpg|thumb|right|[[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] as acting [[CAG]] with [[Boxey (RDM)|Boxey]] as assistant ([[Bastille Day]]).]]<br />
*Thrace participates in a hostage rescue mission aboard the ''[[Astral Queen]]''. Following the successful mission, Thrace tries to mend fences between herself and Colonel Tigh with a toast (consisting of water), apologizing in much the same way as Tigh himself had tried after their initial escape from [[Ragnar Anchorage]]. But Tigh rejects Thrace's apology, stating that her flaws are professional, while his flaws were personal ([[Bastille Day]]). <br />
*Thrace eventually admits her secret about Zak Adama to William Adama himself, an act that brings their close friendship almost to the breaking point ([[Act of Contrition]]). <br />
*During a surprise encounter with Cylons during [[nugget]] training, Starbuck destroys several Cylon Raiders, but her ship is damaged and tumbles towards a small red moon with an unbreathable atmosphere. With her Viper in a fatal flat-spin, Starbuck is forced to eject from her Viper ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]).<br />
*Thrace (nursing a damaged knee) repairs the downed Cylon Raider found on the inhabitable moon and returns to ''Galactica'', giving the Fleet a vital piece of Cylon fighter technology for study and use.<br />
*The recovering Thrace, off flight status, is asked by Commander Adama to plan a special attack on a Cylon [[tylium]] refinery. The tactical planning role is not something she relishes, and she frequently shows resentment towards others for her condition ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]). <br />
*During Thrace's undesired interrogation of a Cylon prisoner, a copy of a known [[Humanoid Cylon|Cylon]] named [[Leoben Conoy]], she uses some drastic acts to try to extract the information from the humanoid Cylon ([[Flesh and Bone]]).<br />
[[image:Starbuck-Kobols_Last_Gleaming_pt2.jpg|thumb|right|'''Starbuck''' retrieves the [[Arrow of Apollo]] ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II]]).]]<br />
*Thrace is assigned to plant a nuclear device on board a [[Basestar (RDM)|basestar]] in orbit around [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]]. She disobeys orders to retrieve the [[Arrow of Apollo]] at the request of President Roslin, since she discovered Commander Adama's speech concerning knowledge of the location of Earth was a lie. She [[FTL|jump]]s to Caprica ([[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I]]), landing in [[Delphi]] in the captured Cylon [[Cylon Raider (RDM)|Raider]], depriving the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] of the valuable military asset.<br />
*In the [[Delphi Museum of the Colonies]] with the Arrow, she is violently attacked by a copy of [[Number Six]]. Despite being heavily outmatched in the fight, Thrace luckily defeats the Cylon.<br />
*At the museum, she reunites with [[Karl Agathon|Helo]], whom she thought dead, and discovers a second copy of [[Sharon Valerii]], realizing instantly that the woman is a Cylon.<br />
*Valerii, fearing for her child, steals Thrace's Raider. In exasperation, Starbuck only mutters: "Bitch took my ride" ([[Scattered]]). Like Helo, Starbuck is left with no way to return to the Fleet unless she could find her Raider or another Cylon spacecraft, as only Cylon navigational computers are powerful enough to plot jumps over such large distances..<br />
*Starbuck berates Helo's love for the Caprica copy of Valerii. Thrace finds the keys of her surplus military utility vehicle in her old jacket in her old apartment. Thrace has a ride again, if only to move more efficiently about Caprica ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
[[Image:ThraceAndersResistance.jpg|thumb|right|Thrace and Anders playing Pyramid on Caprica ([[Resistance (episode)|Resistance]]).]]<br />
*Thrace and Helo meet a [[Caprica Resistance|resistance movement]] on Caprica. Thrace and [[Samuel Anders]] strike up a rapport as fellow [[Pyramid (RDM)|Pyramid]] players and end up as lovers.<br />
*During planning to steal a [[Heavy Raider]], Thrace is shot in a military action, waking up in a hospital on Caprica. Thrace is told by her doctor, [[Simon]], that Anders died from wounds he suffered in getting Thrace to safety.<br />
*Thrace discovers that Simon is working with a [[Number Six|known humanoid Cylon]]. She overhears that the next day he plans to extract her ovaries for use in the Cylon's attempts to study and create a hybrid Cylon/human embryo. Simon also makes the mistake of calling Thrace by her callsign, Starbuck, which she had never revealed.<br />
*Staggering and in pain, Thrace kills Simon and escapes the hospital, but not before clocking a Six copy with a fire extinguisher and destroying the local farm power supply, mercy-killing [[Sue-Shaun]] and several other women in the facility.<br />
*Another Simon copy appears just as the Resistance attacks the facility. The second Simon, now revealed as a humanoid Cylon himself, is immediately killed by the Resistance, but a squad of [[Cylon Centurion]]s appear and pins the Resistance down. Luckily, [[Sharon Agathon|Caprica-Valerii]] swoops in with a stolen [[Heavy Raider]], destroys the Centurions and flies the Resistance and Thrace out of harm's way.<br />
*Thrace promises to Anders that she'll [[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I|return with a rescue mission]] for the remaining survivors. Anders returns the Arrow of Apollo to Thrace, which he hid on the resistance grounds for safekeeping ([[The Farm]]).<br />
*Thrace, Helo and the pregnant Valerii land on the ''[[Astral Queen]]'' in the Heavy Raider. Finding the [[Laura Roslin faction]] in orbit of [[Kobol (RDM)|Kobol]], Thrace is reunited with Lee. He kisses her impulsively, catching Thrace by pleasant surprise, but a tense standoff follows when Lee discovers that another Sharon copy has returned with them. Roslin helps defuse the situation, and Thrace delivers the Arrow of Apollo to the President.<br />
*Temporarily removed from miltary protocol, Lee playfully teases Thrace by stealing a pyramid ball she took from Caprica. Adama senses her depression about Caprica and tells her that he'd be happy to hear about any problems she had. He also let slip that he loved her, which brightened Thrace's mood to the point where she teased him back about his slip.<br />
*With a team led by Laura Roslin, Lee, and, later, joined by the recovered Commander Adama, Thrace enters the [[Tomb of Athena]] and successfully uses the Arrow of Apollo to activate a hologram that shows constellations of the Twelve Colonies' ancient symbols.<br />
*Thrace realizes that they are on a recreation of Earth. Together with Lee, they locate the Lagoon Nebula, a celestial body known to Commander Adama and Lee, and gather sufficient information to begin an actual course to Earth ([[Home, Part II]]).<br />
[[Image:Starbuck.uniform.jpg|thumb|Thrace in dress uniform ([[Act of Contrition]]).]]<br />
*Thrace shows off the impressive stealth abilities of the new [[Blackbird]] fighter in her maiden flight ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
*With the arrival of ''[[Pegasus (RDM)|Pegasus]]'', Admiral [[Helena Cain]] summarily assigns Thrace (and Lee) to ''Pegasus'' after digesting the reports of ''Galactica'''s officers. <br />
*[[Cole Taylor|The ''Pegasus'' CAG]] removes Thrace from the Cylon recon mission. Lee secretly tells her to use the [[Blackbird]] to take recon photos of the Cylon Unknown ([[Pegasus (episode)|Pegasus]]).<br />
*Returning from her very successful mission, the [[Blackbird]]'s lack of a Colonial transponder is mistaken for a Cylon [[Raider]] on [[DRADIS]], and Starbuck is nearly confronted and shot at by Vipers from ''Pegasus'' and ''Galactica''. After narrowly avoiding certain death by declaring herself a friendly, Thrace transmits her recon photos to ''Pegasus''.<br />
*Admiral Cain is very impressed with Starbuck's performance and promotes her to Captain and ''Pegasus'' CAG.<br />
*Thrace is assigned the task of planning the joint attack on the Resurrection Ship, but successfully asks to have Lee on her team, restoring him to flight status.<br />
*After she briefs Cain and Commander Adama on her battle plan, Adama asks Thrace privately to assassinate Cain after the battle is complete. Adama fears that if Cain continues to command, the Fleet would be in mortal jeopardy from Cain's draconian command ([[Resurrection Ship, Part I]]).<br />
*Thrace's battle planning, as before on the [[tylium]] [[The Hand of God (RDM)|mine]], works to near-perfection, with the Resurrection Ship destroyed and its supporting basestars.<br />
*As a result of the battle events, Thrace is left without backup as she walks to the ''Pegasus'' CIC to shoot Cain, obviously afraid and apprehensive. When Commander Adama calls, Thrace slowly moves her hand to her sidearm but, to her relief, Adama does not give the kill order and cryptically instructs her to stand down ([[Resurrection Ship, Part II]]).<br />
*Starbuck and [[Kat]] are involved in the protection of a mining operation from periodic Raider attacks. One Raider, nicknamed [[Scar (Raider)|Scar]], fuels an intensive rivalry for the pilot's "top gun" honor. Thrace, still depressed over her inability to convince Fleet command to initiate a rescue for Samuel Anders and his resistance, drinks heavily and obsesses over removing Scar from the sky, even at the cost of her life. Fortunately, Starbuck realizes the futility of her actions, and works together with Kat to destroy the remarkably dangerous Raider ([[Scar]]).<br />
*A few weeks later, Thrace takes leave on ''[[Cloud Nine]]'' when she was dragooned into rescuing Lee and several other ''Galactica'' crew and residents after terrorists take them hostage in exchange for the incarcerated [[Sharon Valerii]]. Thrace gathers intel on the situation, but her cover is blown. In the retreating firefight, Lee is caught in the crossfire. After the situation is resolved, Thrace intended to sit at Lee's bedside, only to discover that Dualla beat her to it ([[Sacrifice]]).<br />
*Later, Thrace is assigned to ''Pegasus'' as a flight trainer. Though the pilots like her, Commander [[Barry Garner]] does not, eventually confining her to quarters for "insubordination." Following the [[Battle of the Binary Star System|ill-fated rescue and retreat]] from a Cylon ambush (where Thrace leads the fighters), Thrace informs new ''Pegasus'' Commander Lee that she was taking over his old CAG post aboard ''Galactica'' ([[The Captain's Hand]]).<br />
*Thrace gets her wish: The Caprica rescue is approved, and she leads a large Raptor squadron to the planet. The group soon met up with Anders, who reports that their HQ had been destroyed and Thrace's timing was just perfect. A squad of Centurions ambush and pin down the group moments later ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part I]]).<br />
*Still pinned down from attack fire, Starbuck and Anders agree to kill each other to avoid capture and internment at a [[Farms|farm]]. But the attack stops, and a [[Cavil|man]] appears, praising the [[Lords of Kobol|Gods]] as he announces that the Cylons not only have ceased fire, but are abandoning the Twelve Colonies. Starbuck isn't really surprised to discover that the man, known as Brother [[Cavil]], was a Cylon upon their return to the Fleet.<br />
*Starbuck and Anders proceed to get drunk, and host a disastrous encounter with Lee. This apparently led to a rift between the two comrades. <br />
[[Image:Leobenkara.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Leoben with Kara Thrace ([[Exodus, Part I]]).]]<br />
*The evening of the founding of [[New Caprica]], Thrace slept with Lee and proclaimed her love for him as she was uncertain regarding her feelings toward Anders. The following morning she quickly married Anders in a ceremonry near the river. This caused a rift between Kara and Lee that lasted for over a year.{{fact}}<br />
*Life on New Caprica tempered Thrace, and she often behaved in ways Starbuck never would have, including hugging Colonel Tigh and pampering Anders during his bout with an illness.<br />
*She watches in horror at the sudden arrival of hundreds of Cylon ships in the sky over New Caprica. A few of ''Galactica's'' former crew gather near Thrace, looking to her for guidance. Starbuck responds the only way she knows how: "Fight 'em until we can't" ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]). <br />
*After Baltar's surrender of New Caprica, Conoy keeps Thrace prisoner in an apartment located within the Cylon-built [[New Caprica Detention Center]] in an attempt to convince Thrace that she loves him and also convert her to the [[Cylon Religion|Cylon monotheistic religion]]. She repeatedly kills Conoy a total of five times in an attempt to convince him to let her go ("[[Occupation]]", "[[Precipice]]").<br />
*Conoy introduces Thrace to a small child named [[Kacey Brynn|Kacey]], who appears to be approximately two to three years in age, whom he claims is their biological daughter. He explains that the child was created using one of Thrace's extracted ovaries ([[The Farm]]) and his genetic material. Conflicted, Thrace leaves the child unattended, which later results in Kacey falling down the apartment's stairs ([[Precipice]]). After the fall, Thrace begins to change her attitude towards the child and begins to offer affection towards Conoy ("[[Precipice]]", "[[Exodus, Part I]]").<br />
*Upon her return to ''Galactica'' after Admiral Adama's daring rescue attempt, Thrace heartbreakingly discovers that Kacey was simply another manipulation on Conoy's part &mdash; Kacey is merely a human child whom the Cylons had abducted months ago ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
*Bearing the psychological scars of her four month ordeal with Leoben and Kacey, Thrace is recruited by [[Seelix]] as a last minute replacement juror in the [[Circle]] after [[Samuel Anders]]' resignation. Thrace's involvement in the Circle precipitates the breakup of her marriage with Anders. Intially wondering about the legality of the tribunal, she is the fifth vote to find Gaeta guilty of treason and collaboration. Later, when Gaeta is about to be killed in one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]], she demands him to beg for his life. Thrace physically assaults him and goes down the litany of "lies" that Gaeta told her earlier about him helping the [[New Caprica Resistance|insurgency]]. As she does so, [[Galen Tyrol]], one of the Circle's jurors, overhears this and confirms the story. In a sense of confusion after learning that Gaeta was telling the truth, Thrace leaves the launch tube ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
*During a combat exercise between Vipers, Thrace breaks formation and collides with another pilot, forcing an end to the war games and causing Lee to revoke her flight status. Later, at her bunk she is met by Kacey and her mother, whom she dismisses, telling Kacey's mother not to visit her again. In the pilots' rec room, Thrace and Colonel Tigh begin to sow dissent between the survivors of New Caprica and the crew that stayed behind on ''Galactica'', insinuating that those who stayed behind did not suffer like those on New Caprica did, and that the crew of ''Galactica'' took too long to organize a rescue. Admiral Adama, upon learning of this from [[Karl Agathon]], confronts Thrace and Tigh on their behavior. He challenges them to shoot him, as their constant complaining is tantamount to pulling the trigger. When neither do, Adama throws Thrace off her chair and demands that both she and Tigh shape up and move on with their lives. Spurred by Adama's words, Thrace cuts her hair and returns to duty. Later, in uniform, she visits Kacey and her mother on the [[Camp Oil Slick|converted hangar deck]] ([[Torn]]).<br />
*Thrace enters an affair with Lee, rekindling their romance on New Caprica ([[Unfinished Business]]). Both Anders and Lee's wife, Lieutenant [[Dualla]], are more than vaguely aware of the pair's sexual tension. Lee soon ends the affair and reconciles, but Thrace refuses to give Anders any further attention than a periodic sexual fling.<br />
*Starbuck is involved with the defense of the [[Temple of Five]] but is severely injured, leaving her rescuer, Dualla, to return them to ''Galactica'' ([[Rapture]]). Helo recognizes the strange circular [[Eye of Jupiter|mandala]] in the Temple, created 4,000 years before, and its resemblance to a symbol that Thrace painted in her apartment. When shown the symbol, the recovering Thrace is darkly reminded of Leoben's prophesy.<br />
*During refueling operations above a gas giant, Starbuck is continually attracted to what she believes is a Cylon contact, which she chases to find a planetary storm that resembles the mandala. She dives into it, almost losing control before coming to her senses and returning.<br />
*Command staff and Thrace question her competency to continue flying, but Lee volunteers encouragement and offers to fly as her wingman on her next [[Combat Air Patrol|CAP]].<br />
*Starbuck finds herself attracted by another apparent Cylon contact. As she descended, her Viper is struck by debris and she, while unconscious, experiences a revelation about her mother, [[Socrata Thrace]], and guided through the vision by what looks to be a Leoben copy.<br />
*Starbuck regains consciousness but chooses to continue her descent despite Lee's desperate pleas to ascend. "I'll see you on the other side (...) Just let me go" were her last words as her Viper explodes. A grief-stricken Lee tells [[CIC]] that he did not see any ejection ([[Maelstrom]]).<br />
*While preparing for a Cylon engagement near the [[Ionian nebula]], Lee detects a bogey on [[DRADIS]]. While he searches for the target, Lee finds himself momentarily in a cat-and-mouse chase game with the mysterious target. As Lee attempts to regain sight of the bogey, it positions itself next to his Viper.<br />
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== Back from the dead ==<br />
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*The pristine Viper Mark II that comes alongside is flown by Starbuck herself. A shocked and confused Lee listens to the apparently-resurrected Kara Thrace, who tells him that she has been to [[Earth (RDM)|Earth]] and she has returned to take the Fleet to it ([[Crossroads, Part II]]).<br />
*After the [[Battle of the Ionian Nebula|battle at the nebula]], she returns to ''Galactica'' where everyone is astounded to see her alive. While everyone believed her dead for over two months, only several hours have passed for her. She has returned with recon photography of Earth, but no navigational data or knowledge of how she got there. Despite passing a medical examination by Doc Cottle, almost everyone - especially Roslin - thinks she may be a Cylon or part of a Cylon trap, and thus don't believe her. Thrace herself wonders if she could be a Cylon.<br />
*When the Fleet jumps further away from the Ionian Nebula, she experiences headaches and says that she is losing the intuitive feeling of the way to Earth. Desperate to lead the Colonials there, she breaks into Adama's quarters and confronts Roslin at gun point ([[He That Believeth In Me]]).<br />
*Thrace is eventually subdued by Marines and imprisoned in the [[brig]]. Lee, now retired from the military, visits Thrace in the brig and tells her that he believes her. Thrace is happy that he does and they share a kiss before Lee leaves for Colonial One. Although not sure what to make of her claims, Admiral Adama releases her later, and gives her command of the ''[[Demetrius]]'', and a crew including [[Karl Agathon]] and Samuel Anders, telling her to try to find Earth ([[Six of One]]).<br />
*Thrace irritates her crew by frequent, unexplained course changes and rarely leaving her quarters, where she holes herself up to study star charts. When her husband confronts her about her command style and their marriage, she tells him that she is not the same person he married and tries to throw him out of her cabin. However, when Anders holds her, she tells him that she wants to have sex in order to feel something. Afterwards, she says that she feels distanced from her body and the events around her ([[The Ties That Bind]]).<br />
* When a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy comes aboard the ''Demetrius'' with the offer of an alliance with the Cylons, a power struggle among the crew breaks out when Thrace orders to jump to his baseship ([[The Road Less Traveled]]). The fight ends with Gaeta getting shot in the leg by Anders. After standing down, Thrace decides to accompany Conoy with a small team. On his baseship she meets the Cylon [[Hybrid]], who repeats the [[first Hybrid]]'s [[The Destiny|prophecy]] ([[Razor]]) and gives her the next task: join the Cylons to unbox [[Number Three]] to learn what she knows of the Final Five ([[Faith]]).<br />
* After the unboxing, Thrace reacts with shock and disbelief when she learns that her husband is a Cylon. She investigates the [[Starbuck's Viper|Viper she returned in]] and notices that it receives a strange signal, giving her a direct bearing to Earth. Her discovery stops the imminent execution of Colonel Tigh and leads to a truce with the [[Cylon Civil War|Cylon rebels]]. After arriving at Earth, Thrace is part of the first group on the surface, but finds only a destroyed city ([[Revelations]]).<br />
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== Currently... ==<br />
*Thrace and [[Leoben]] explore the devastated Earth trying to find the source of the signal. They find pieces of wreckage belonging to a [[Viper (RDM)|Colonial Viper]] - the same Viper that Thrace flew into the gas giant. Finally, they come upon the cockpit of the crashed Viper - with its pilot still inside. Thrace is horrified to discover the dead pilot's identity: It's her. Thrace reveals to Leoben that the [[Hybrid]] called her the "Harbinger of Death." Leoben has no explanation for any of this and flees the scene, leaving Thrace alone to wonder who or what she really is. Thrace later retrieves the dog tags and wedding ring from the body. She then cremates the body and returns to ''[[Galactica]]''. She does not tell anyone what she has discovered. ([[Sometimes a Great Notion]]).<br />
*After ''Galactica'' leaves Earth, Thrace is still trying to come to terms with her discoveries on Earth. Unfortunately, [[Gaeta]], who is unhappy about the Fleet's alliance with the [[Cylon (RDM)|Cylons]], decides to pick a fight with her. The two exchange harsh words and insults; Gaeta accuses Thrace of collaborating with the Cylons, while Thrace retorts that Gaeta is just bitter because he lost his leg. Gaeta makes a thinly-veiled threat against Thrace, who responds by telling him she isn't afraid to beat up a cripple. Thrace then storms off. ([[A Disquiet Follows My Soul]]).<br />
*Thrace is next seen in her barracks with [[Hot Dog]]. She teases him about his unexpected fathering of [[Nicholas Tyrol]]. Hot Dog is not amused and angrily retorts that Thrace slept with half the Fleet herself and has nothing to show for her efforts. This hits a nerve and Thrace throws a bowl of food at a retreating Hot Dog.<br />
*An alarm goes off and Thrace is ordered by [[Narcho]] to evacuate the area. Thrace is suspicious and when she presses Narcho for more information, Narcho snaps that no one even knows what she is any more. <br />
*Thrace turns to see a group of marines and civilians led by [[Charlie Connor]] run past her, and she follows them. She sees the group break into a weapons locker and arm themselves. She hears Connor giving his men orders to take the hangar deck. <br />
*Thrace rushes back to her barracks and grabs her weapons. She then tries to warn the CIC, but Gaeta blocks her calls. Realizing that Gaeta is also involved, Thrace takes off for the hangar deck.<br />
*She arrives at the hangar deck just in time to rescue Lee from Connor and his men who are being assisted by [[Racetrack]] and [[Skulls]]. Thrace kills one of the marines and wounds Skulls, forcing the others to back off. She and Lee then hurry away.<br />
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*Thrace and Lee take refuge inside a storage compartment. Lee doesn't think they can defeat the mutiny alone. Thrace responds by kissing him. She then says that this is the first time in weeks that she feels right.<br />
*Thrace and Adama head for the CIC. They find that the mutiny has spread all across the ship. They arrive at Admiral Adama's quarters, where they meet [[Roslin]]. After learning of the mutiny, Roslin decides that she must come out and address the Fleet. However, the ship's communications are down, and the only working transmitter on the ship is in Baltar's possession. <br />
*Thrace, Adama, and Roslin make it to Baltar's compartment, where they find [[Tyrol]] organizing a defense. Tyrol tells them that Admiral Adama has been arrested and is being escorted to the brig. Tyrol also tells them about a secondary storage airlock they can use to escape the ship. Thrace and Adama head off to rescue the admiral.<br />
*At the brig, they find that [[Admiral Adama]] and [[Colonel Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]] have already escaped custody. They have also taken a rebel marine [[Nowart]] prisoner. Thrace tries to kill Nowart, but the admiral stops her. As Nowart flees, Thrace argues that the mutineers are the enemy and that they can't afford to take prisoners.<br />
*Thrace, Tigh and the Adamas arrive at the secondary storage airlock, where they find Tyrol, Roslin and [[Gaius Baltar|Baltar]] waiting. A [[Raptor]] piloted by an [[Eight]] docks. After Roslin and Baltar board the Raptor, Thrace, Lee and Tyrol head off to continue the fight against Gaeta and [[Zarek|Zarek's]] forces. ([[The Oath]])<br />
*Lee and Kara head off to free the captives held in the brig, while Tyrol goes to sabotage the ship's FTL drive. They take out the mutineers guarding the brig and free Tigh, [[Sharon Agathon|Athena]], [[Helo]], [[Hera Agathon|Hera]], [[Caprica Six]] and [[Samuel Anders|Anders]]. <br />
*There is a firefight outside and Anders is shot in the back of the head. He is not killed but is in dire need of medical attention. Thrace yells at the others to go without her and she starts dragging Anders towards the infirmary.<br />
*Kara eventually exhausts herself trying to carry Anders and she collapses. A rebel marine escorting [[Romo Lampkin]] appears. Kara tries to shoot the marine but her gun is empty. However, Lampkin suddenly stabs the marine with a pen killing him. <br />
*Kara asks Lampkin to help her carry Anders to the infirmary. Lampkin is initially reluctant but eventually agrees to help. ([[Blood on the Scales]])<br />
*In the immediate aftermath of the mutiny, Thrace learns from [[Cottle]] that the bullet is still stuck in Anders' skull. Anders' suppressed memories of his Cylon life back on Earth are also triggered. To Thrace's disappointment, Anders does not have an explanation as to who she really is or how she apparently came back from the dead.<br />
*Cottle manages to remove the bullet, which he gives to Thrace. However, when Kara goes to speak with Anders, she discovers that he has zero brain activity - which the medical personnel are unable to explain. ([[No Exit]]).<br />
*Thrace is later part of a joint Cylon-Colonial CAP which escorts a Raptor carrying [[Ellen Tigh]] and [[Sharon Valerii|Boomer]] onto the ''Galactica''.<br />
*Thrace is later seen in ''Galactica'''s bar drinking and toying with the bullet removed from Anders' skull. She and Tyrol have a brief discussion about Boomer, who is being held in the brig. ([[Deadlock]])<br />
*Kara gets a drawing of what seems to be stars from Hera and later visits Joe's Bar where she helps piano player [[Slick]] with the music he's composing. There she reveals that she used to play piano as a girl with her father until he left and then stopped and she had a song she used to play that made her happy. She realizes that Hera's drawing is of the notes for that song and she and Slick start playing it together. It turns out to be [[The Music]] and Slick disappears and its indicated he was some kind of vision of her father. She later goes to Anders to try to get some answers about what she is and the Music, but is apparently unsuccessful.<br />
*When Admiral Adama comes to see Anders (who is acting as ''Galactica's'' Hybrid) to find out the location of the Colony, Kara reveals to him that she has tried to make sense out of the notes by assigning numbers to them, but has had no luck in understanding it. Adama tells her he knows who she is: she's his daughter Later she and Adama spread red tape down the hanger deck to create a line for people to cross one way or the other to show whether or not they volunteer for the rescue mission for Hera. Kara stays on the volunteers side of the line and doesn't move the whole time having made her choice.<br />
*During [[Battle of The Colony|the battle]], she leads a strike force that includes Helo and Athena into [[The Colony]] through Raptors. They encounter Boomer who gives them back Hera before being killed by Athena. Kara's team meets up with Lee's and they retreat to ''Galactica'' which has its nose inside the Colony as their Raptors have been destroyed as revealed by Boomer.<br />
*Kara helps defend the ship and after an agreement is reached with Cavil, takes damage reports on their forces alongside Lee. After things go badly and the Colony starts to fall into the black hole, ''Galactica'' along with it, Kara, the nearest person to the FTL console, is ordered to jump them away. Kara doesn't know the rendezvous coordinates, but Adama tells her it doesn't matter, just get them out of there. Kara, hit with inspiration, inputs the numbers she assigned to The Music's notes as the coordinates and jumps ''Galactica'' there. They find out that where she took them is a habitable planet that the fleet turns into its new home and names Earth. <br />
*Kara says goodbye to Sam before he flies the Fleet into the sun, destroying ''Galactica'' and the other ships. Kara later says a final goodbye to Admiral Adama and tells Lee she's also leaving and not coming back. She was sent back from the dead to guide the Fleet to its new home and now her journey's complete. Kara then disappears into thin air and is not seen again.<br />
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==Lord of Kobol, Hear My Prayer==<br />
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Despite her tough, rebellious exterior, Thrace is deeply spiritual and possesses a great deal of faith in the [[Lords of Kobol (RDM)|Lords of Kobol]]. She usually prays in moments of mourning or desperation, such as when she thinks Lee is dead ([[Miniseries]]), when she is trapped on a desolate moon with a broken knee and low oxygen ([[You Can't Go Home Again]]), and when she discovers she's in Cylon captivity ([[The Farm]]). This spirituality is put to the test as a series of events lead her towards a mysterious destiny.<br />
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==The Destiny==<br />
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From early in her life, Kara Thrace has been guided through her mother's actions for a special role in life, a plot point that begins with a [[Leoben Conoy]] copy in the Season 1 episode, "[[Flesh and Bone]]". In "[[Maelstrom]]", the character dies, but reappears as a possible herald at the end of Season 3.<br />
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A Cylon [[First Hybrid|Hybrid]], speaking to Major [[Kendra Shaw]] moments before their deaths, warns her that Thrace is the herald of the apocalypse and the harbinger of death, that she would lead the human race to its end, and that she is not to be followed ([[Razor]]). Similarly, another [[Hybrid]] describes her as the harbinger of death, and she would lead them to salvation and destruction ([[Faith]]).<br />
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==Notes==<br />
*On the Sci-Fi Channel's preview for season 2.5 (US), Katee Sackhoff is quoted as saying that Starbuck is "the best Viper pilot...EVER."<br />
*[[Wikipedia:Thrace|Thrace]] was a region in south-eastern Europe that was heavily influenced by the ancient Greeks and was eventually conquered by [[Wikipedia:Philip II of Macedonia|Phillip II of Macedonia]]. Thracians were considered by most to be the most ferocious fighters and were often highly paid mercenaries for Greek kings.<br />
*Thrace may have been named after [[w:Thrax (mythology)|Thrax]], the son of [[w:Ares|Ares]], the god of war, who was said to reside on the Thracian plain in Greek mythology.<br />
*After auditioning for the role of [[Anastasia Dualla|Dualla]], [[Grace Park]] was asked by director [[Michael Rymer]] to audition for the role of Starbuck, and she was actually one of two finalists up for the role (the other obviously being [[Katee Sackhoff]], who got the part). Ultimately Park was cast as [[Sharon Valerii|Sharon "Boomer" Valerii]].<br />
*In a TV Guide [http://online.tvguide.com/newsearch/detail.aspx?id=4371595&sourcetype=S&progseriesparentid=4371595&tvobjectid=191395&keyword=Battlestar+Galactica&referrer=search1 photo shoot] at the BSG studios, Katee Sackhoff explained that the [[tattoo]] that Starbuck bears on her left arm is a wing and a circle and has half of the constellation of Capricorn (a reference to [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] obviously) and a small symbol of the planet as well. It matches a mirror image of the tattoo on Anders' right arm. When the two of them hold each other with their respective arms crossing, the 2 tattoos come together to form an image of a single ring with 2 wings that is supposed to represent their union. According to Sackhoff, Kara and Anders had the tattoos done around the time of their wedding, a fact later confirmed in dialogue during Season 4.5.<br />
*The license plate on Thrace's truck on Caprica is "FB 42 E3" ([[Valley of Darkness]]).<br />
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'''The Circle''' is a secret tribunal authorized by President [[Tom Zarek]]. The task of this tribunal is to decide the fate of people implicated as collaborators during the Cylon occupation of [[New Caprica]]. <br />
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The Circle consists of six members and is initially composed of [[Saul Tigh|Colonel Tigh]], [[Galen Tyrol]], [[Samuel Anders]], [[Diana Seelix]], [[Jean Barolay]], and [[Charlie Connor]], all former members of the resistance on New Caprica. Anders later leaves the group and is replaced by his wife, [[Kara Thrace]]. Convictions are for "crimes against humanity and treason".<br />
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The members differ drastically in their motivations and behaviour: Anders and Tyrol are the most scrupulous members, insisting on proper procedure and clear evidence for convictions. Tyrol is often the last member to cast his vote. Anders drops out in protest against the majority's handling of the case of [[Felix Gaeta]] and Tyrol insists on the need to replace him before proceeding. Colonel Tigh is less scrupulous and prone to assume guilt by association but - as in the case of Anders' replacement - insists on proper procedure according to presidential decree. He is followed in this position by Seelix and Barolay. The most extreme member is Connor, who is simply out for revenge for his dead son and cares little for proper procedures. In this he is vocally opposed by Colonel Tigh, who insists that the Circlel is "not a death squad"<br />
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Roslin and Adama are appalled that Zarek would authorize trials without granting the accused the legal representation they are entitled too. Zarek tries to justify this, by saying that the Fleet would be occupied for months or years with proper trials and wants to spare Roslin signing death warrants for the entirety of her next term.<br />
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The suspect list includes [[Galactica (RDM)|''Galactica'']] military personnel [[James Lyman|James "Jammer" Lyman]] and [[Felix Gaeta]]. The Circle convicts Lyma, a reluctant member of the [[New Caprica Police]], for having participated in killings during a raid and execute him by expulsion through one of ''Galactica's'' [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]]. Gaeta, who had served as a presidential aide to [[Gaius Baltar]] on New Caprica is also convicted by the Circle of crimes against humanity. Just before his execution, Tyrol is able to confirm that it was Gaeta who served as the "inside source" during the occupation of New Caprica, passing top-secret information to the resistance. Tyrol convinces the other members of the Circle to aquit Gaeta.<br />
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Fifty-six other suspected collaborators on the list are not tried. The Circle disbands when newly reinstated President Laura Roslin grants general pardons all members of the fleet for crimes committed during the occupation ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
*Ironically, three members of the circile - Tyrol, Anders and Tigh - are later revealed to be members of the [[final five]] Cylons, though they were not aware of it at the time.<br />
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'''James "Jammer" Lyman''' is first seen as a [[deckhand]] under Chief [[Galen Tyrol]] on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]''.<br />
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When President [[Laura Roslin]] makes it public knowledge that Cylons are now capable of [[Humanoid Cylon|mimicking human form]], paranoia spreads throughout the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Colonial Fleet]]. [[Callandra Tyrol|Cally Tyrol ''née'' Henderson]] and [[Socinus]] argue with Lyman that everyone shouldn't become suspicious and stop trusting one another or the Cylons get what they want. Lyman tells his shipmates that the time for that kind of thinking is in the past and it's "every man for himself now" ([[Litmus]]).<br />
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When [[Cylon Centurion]]s board ''Galactica'' ([[Valley of Darkness]]), Captain [[Lee Adama]] and a team of Marines find Lyman hiding unharmed in a [[small arms locker]] filled with crewmen the Cylons killed.<br />
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Lyman also scoffs Tyrol's attempt at constructing the [[Blackbird]], though he later reconsiders his decision and aids the deck crew and Tyrol in finishing the prototype, signing his nickname on the hull ([[Flight of the Phoenix]]).<br />
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As with most of the Fleet, Lyman settles on [[New Caprica]]. After the Cylons occupy the planet, Lyman becomes a member of the [[New Caprica Resistance|resistance]]. He appears to be very religious, and objects to hiding weapons in the [[temple]]. Lyman is picked up by the Cylon authorities and asked about the events of the temple by a copy of [[Number Five]]. He later joins the [[New Caprica Police]] ([[Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance|The Resistance]]).<br />
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Lyman survives the suicide bombing carried out by [[Tucker Clellan|Tucker "Duck" Clellan]] at the NCP graduation ceremony. Like all NCP personnel, he wears a mask to conceal his identity, and not even Tyrol is aware of Lyman's new position. When the Cylons begin to crack down on the insurgency by rounding up and arresting random people, he participates, but soon realizes that he is in over his head. When the Cylons order the execution of 200 detainees, including Cally, he helps her escape ([[Precipice]]). The centurion firing-squad is then attacked by Tyrol and his fellow insurgents, who rescue the detainees ([[Exodus, Part I]]).<br />
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Lyman escapes and is seen again as New Caprica City is being evacuated during the [[Battle of New Caprica]]. [[Tom Zarek]] gives him a sidearm and tells him to guard Laura Roslin as she makes her way back to ''[[Colonial One]]''. Lyman is on board the presidential liner when it takes off to rendezvous with the Fleet ([[Exodus, Part II]]).<br />
[[Image:Collaborators - Jammer in the tube.jpg|thumb|right|Lyman in the launch tube ([[Collaborators]])]]<br />
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On the third night following the [[Second Exodus|escape from New Caprica]], Lyman is brought before the [[Circle]], a secret tribunal created by an executive order of President Zarek. The Circle consists of six members who formerly served in the leadership of the New Caprica Resistance. The Circle convicts Lyman for having participated in killings during a police raid, in which 23 people, including [[Kevin Connor|one circle member's son]] died. Lyman pleads for his life, imploring Chief Tyrol to have mercy on him because he saved Cally's life, but eventually Tyrol gives way to the other members. Lyman is jettisoned from ''Galactica'' via one of the [[launch tubes (RDM)|launch tubes]] and dies from vacuum exposure. <br />
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Later, Lee Adama informs his father that Lyman is among the people who turn up missing, as Lyman failed to report for duty the following morning and could not be located on ''Galactica'' ([[Collaborators]]).<br />
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* Lyman is somewhat distinct amongst the deck crew of ''Galactica'' in that while many other deckhands wear orange jumpsuits, Lyman's jumpsuit is yellow. This is probably done to add to the realism of the Re-imagined Series, because real-world aircraft carrier deck crew personnel wear color-coded jumpsuits according to their assigned tasks.<br />
*The nickname "Jammer", as well as the yellow uniform, may indicate that he is an ordnance loading specialist. On real world aircraft carriers these crewmen are often called "jammers" as their job often calls for loading machine guns and rocket launchers. In the US Navy they wear red colored uniforms.<br />
*In an ironic twist, [[Galen Tyrol|three]] of the [[Samuel Anders|six]] [[Saul Tigh|members]] of the Circle who pass judgment on Lyman are [[Crossroads, Part II#Act 4|later revealed]] to be [[Final Five|Cylons]].<br />
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